In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Additionally, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that rare. That is the reason why registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your personal info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is exceptionally easy if you’ve got a Linux web hosting. You can achieve this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll only need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you’d like to transfer a particular domain name to another registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact information with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthenticated people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This requires just several clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything related to your account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.