According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. At the same time, this information is freely visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud isn’t that uncommon. That’s the reason why registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your details with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared website hosting plan from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will tell you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. Thus, you can protect your private information even if you have not activated the service during the hosting account order process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires only a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you manage everything associated with your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your active domain names and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so you won’t end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.