According to the policy approved 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. Moreover, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. Because of this, domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your information with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

If you’ve ordered a hosting plan from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private information secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button next to each of your domains. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can protect your personal information even if you haven’t enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order 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

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a couple of easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. If you skip this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can administer the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup process. Renewing or disabling the service is just as simple and will require only a few clicks.