In accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this info is openly visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that rare. That’s why 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’s activated, people will see the details of the domain 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 personal info with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is really easy if you’ve got a web hosting service. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your hosting account – you will only need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain name that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you want to transfer a given domain name to another company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or business contact details with only a few clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthorized individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to conceal the contact info for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the service or remove it – in case you would like to transfer a domain name to some other registrar and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.