In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. At the same time, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that unusual. That is why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is surprisingly easy if you’ve got a hosting. You can accomplish this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you’ll just have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – if you’d like to transfer a specific domain name to another registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact information with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be acquired by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any effort. This takes just a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.