According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. At the same time, this info is openly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in times when identity theft is not that rare. That’s the reason why registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your info with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company in case you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to switch between different interfaces. In the same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so upon registration. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the change will take effect instantly.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires only a few clicks of the mouse in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you manage everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, using which you can activate, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific top-level domain name extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.