In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. What’s more, this info is publicly available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that uncommon. This is why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private details secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your personal data even if you haven’t enabled the service during the registration procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Enabling Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is stunningly easy in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server. As long as the domain name is registered through us, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated server plan. In case a particular generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a tiny button on the right-hand side of that domain. To enable the Whois Privacy Protection service, you will have to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or deactivate the service. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for a domain name during the account activation process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the chance to add it to any of your domain names at a later time if you change your mind and decide to conceal your personal information from the general public after you’ve already created the semi-dedicated account.