According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Moreover, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that atypical. That’s the reason why domain registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud web hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private info safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domain names. Its colour will show you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can secure your personal information even if you have not enabled the Whois Privacy Protection service during the registration procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to hide the contact info for your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any time afterwards through our Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be enabled with a few clicks of the mouse from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domains that you’ve registered through us will be listed alphabetically. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of the TLD extensions that support this service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol next to each domain. In the very same way, you can also renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or turn it off – if you wish to transfer a domain to a different domain name registrar and you need the actual email address associated with the domain to be visible.