According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Moreover, this information is openly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in times when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. That’s the reason why registrar companies have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your private information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t have to switch between different admin interfaces. In the very same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the registration process. In addition, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the exact same icon and the change will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to conceal the contact details for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to enable our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration process or at any moment later via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered with our company will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or deactivate it – in case you wish to transfer a domain name to some other registrar and you need the real mailbox associated with the domain to be visible.