In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Additionally, this information is publicly available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that infrequent. That is why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is astonishingly easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or disable the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.