In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. In addition, this information is publicly available on WHOIS sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in times when identity fraud isn’t that rare. This is the reason why registrar companies have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your personal details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you get a hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is remarkably easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will show you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by completing several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the account order procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. In case you omit this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as easy and will require only several mouse clicks.