According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Moreover, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, especially in an age when identity theft is not that infrequent. Because of this, registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your private info with certain 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 as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will tell you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is unbelievably easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated package. In case a specific generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small icon on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you’ll have to click on it. In the same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we will give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domains later in case you change your mind and opt to conceal your private info from the general public after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.