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 valid and accurate at all times. At the same time, this information is publicly available on WHOIS sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that rare. This is why domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your private information with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered through our company in case you have a website 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 need to switch between different platforms. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking that icon you can activate the service in case you haven’t done so during the registration process. What’s more, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the change will take effect momentarily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires just a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can order, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.