According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. At the same time, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that uncommon. That’s why registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your personal information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company if you’ve got a cloud website hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account itself, so you will not have to sign in and out of different Control Panel tools. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the registration procedure. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect instantly.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’d like to hide the contact info associated with your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either upon signup or at any moment afterwards via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with a few mouse clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you’ve registered with us will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the top-level domain name extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain. In the same fashion, you can also renew the service or remove it – if you’d like to transfer a domain name to another company and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.