In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Furthermore, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud is not that infrequent. This is the reason why domain name 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 is active, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your private info with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you if the service is active 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’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes only a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we can’t provide.