In accordance with the policies approved 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 info is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that unusual. That’s why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud plan from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal details intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domains. Its colour will inform you whether a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just a few clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can shield your personal information even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You will 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 choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names in a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain name during the account order procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you skip this step and you think things over afterwards, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register with our company after the signup process. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require just a few clicks.