In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Additionally, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that unusual. That’s why registrar companies have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your personal information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – after you sign in, you’ll need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will see a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will inform you whether the service is active 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 package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains in several simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation process, you can get the service together 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 Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with us after signup. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require just a few clicks.