In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Additionally, this info is publicly available on WHOIS web sites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. That’s the reason why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your private information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through our company is incredibly easy if you have a web hosting. You can accomplish this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it completely – if you would like to transfer a given domain name to another registrar. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact information with only a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unsolicited people.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only a couple of clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.