In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Moreover, this info is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. That’s the reason why domain name registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the domain 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 name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private details with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – once you log in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service with ease. This takes only a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting 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” symbol, using which you can activate, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we can’t provide.