In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that uncommon. This is why registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal information with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is exceptionally easy if you’ve got a Linux shared web hosting. You can accomplish this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each top-level 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 want to transfer a given domain name to another domain registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact info with just several clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to conceal the contact info associated with your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account activation process or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with several mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered through our company will be listed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the service or disable it – in case you want to transfer a domain name to some other registrar and you need the actual email account associated with the domain name to be visible.