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 correct and accurate all the time. Moreover, this information is openly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, especially in times when identity fraud is not that unusual. That’s why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, 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 name extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is astonishingly easy in case you’ve got a cloud hosting plan. You can accomplish this through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account – you’ll only need to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will be available for each generic or country-code Top-Level Domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or deactivate it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a given domain to another company. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or corporate contact details with just a couple of clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your details might be obtained by unauthenticated individuals.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a few simple steps. In case you register or transfer a domain during the signup process, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you skip this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register with our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or deactivating the service is just as simple and will take just several clicks.