In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Furthermore, this information is freely available on WHOIS web sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. That is why 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. In case it’s activated, 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 Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your private information with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you get a website hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is surprisingly easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will tell you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.