In accordance with the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Besides, this info is openly available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft isn’t that unusual. This is why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through us is astonishingly easy if you’ve got a cloud web hosting service. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you’ll simply have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a certain domain to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact info with only a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your info might be obtained by unauthenticated persons.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires only a couple of clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can activate, renew or remove the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code domain name extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this in advance, so you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.