According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Furthermore, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in an age when identity theft is not that uncommon. Because of this, registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is unbelievably easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to conceal the contact details for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any time later through your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a few clicks of the mouse from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domain names that you’ve registered through us will be listed in alphabetical order. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain name extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or disable it – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to some other domain registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.