According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. At the same time, this info is freely visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everyone can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that unusual. This is why registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you get a shared website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time afterwards through the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is exceptionally easy – after you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will inform you if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is exceptionally easy if 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 comes with each and every semi-dedicated plan. In case a given generic or country-code domain name is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you’ll see a mini symbol to the right of that domain. To enable the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the same way, you can also renew or disable the service. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the registration procedure as well, but since the service is optional, we’ll offer you the opportunity to add it to any of your domain names later in case you think things over and decide to conceal your private details from the public eye after you have already created the semi-dedicated account.