According to 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 up to date at all times. What’s more, this information is openly available on WHOIS sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that rare. This is why registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will view the details of the 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 info with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting
If you order a web hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is incredibly easy – after you log in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you decide 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 following several easy steps. If you order a registration or a transfer during the account order 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 order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with us after signup. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require just a few clicks.