In accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. What’s more, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud isn’t that unusual. This is the reason why domain name registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – after you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires only a few mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so that you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.