According to the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Besides, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup websites 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 home addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. That’s why domain name registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private info with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is surprisingly easy in case you’ve got a shared hosting. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account – you’ll only have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, 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 disable it completely – in case you’d like to transfer a given domain name to another domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact info with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unsolicited individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service easily. This requires just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia 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 domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up buying a service that we cannot provide.