In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. At the same time, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that uncommon. This is the reason why registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your information with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is unbelievably easy – once you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domains that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This requires just a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your account. This is where you can see all your registered domain names and for each one of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up ordering a service that we can’t provide.