According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that atypical. This is why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar, 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’s still not possible to conceal your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered with our company is incredibly easy if you have a Linux shared website hosting. You can do this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you will only need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be listed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each Top-Level Domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it completely – if you wish to transfer a particular domain name to another company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact details with just a couple of clicks and stop worrying that your information might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires just a couple of clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.