In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Additionally, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that uncommon. For this reason, domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view 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 domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your personal info with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to sign in and out of different platforms. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service if you haven’t done so during the registration procedure. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the change will take effect immediately.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following several simple steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account activation procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you think things over at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after signing up. Renewing or deactivating the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take no more than a couple of mouse clicks.