According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Besides, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, 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 is not that uncommon. That’s the reason why domain registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is very easy in case you’ve got a shared hosting. You can achieve this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account – you will simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will be available for each generic or country-code TLD that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – if you want to transfer a certain domain name to a different company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your personal or corporate contact info with just several clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unauthorized people.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes only several clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage 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” logo, using which you can enable, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you won’t end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.