In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Plus, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in times when identity fraud is not that uncommon. That’s why registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you have a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you won’t need to log in and out of different admin consoles. In the same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so during the signup procedure. Moreover, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the change will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only a few clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code TLD extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.