According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Additionally, this information is freely available on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that rare. That’s the reason why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your personal information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a shared hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can shield your personal information even if you haven’t activated the service during the registration procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Ordering Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name is really easy in case you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain is registered with us, it will be displayed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a specific generic or country-specific domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will see a small button on its right. To activate the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will need to click on it. In the exact same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure too, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll offer you the chance to add it to any of your domain names later if you change your mind and opt to conceal your personal info from the public after you have already ordered the account.