In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Additionally, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, especially in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. This is why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting package from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is surprisingly easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will let you know if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking several simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain. If you omit this step and you think things over at a later point in time, you can activate the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will require just a few clicks.