In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Besides, this information is openly available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud is not that unusual. That’s the reason why registrar companies have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your private details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains if their extensions support the service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration procedure or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is astonishingly easy – once you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will tell you whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you wish to conceal the contact information for your domain name and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order process or at any moment later through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a couple of mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered with our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each domain. In the same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it – if you’d like to transfer a domain to a different domain name registrar and you need the actual mailbox associated with the domain name to be visible.