In accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Additionally, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in times when identity fraud isn’t that rare. For this reason, registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a Linux hosting. You can do this through the very 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 domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you want to transfer a certain domain to another registrar company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact info with only several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthorized persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes only a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up buying a service that we can’t provide.