In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Moreover, this info is publicly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that unusual. That is why domain registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is amazingly easy if you’ve got a Linux shared hosting. You can accomplish this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your 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” symbol, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it completely – if you’d like to transfer a specific domain to a different company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact information with only a couple of clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthorized people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is very easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered through our company, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific Top-Level Domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a small logo on its right. To enable the service, you will need to click on it. In the same fashion, you can also renew or remove the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the registration process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names at a later point in time in case you change your mind and decide to conceal your private info from the public after you’ve already created the account.