According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Besides, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that atypical. For this reason, registrar companies have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your personal info with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you have ordered a shared web hosting service from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will let you know if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. Thus, you can secure your personal details even if you haven’t added the service during the signup process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, 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 domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up paying for a service that we cannot provide.