In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. What’s more, this information is publicly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that atypical. That is the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case 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 TLD extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal info with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is extremely easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will tell you if the service is activated 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 active.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes only a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up buying a service that we cannot provide.