In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Besides, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. That is why registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your private info with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you have ordered a shared hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your personal data intact. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will inform you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your private data even if you haven’t added the service during the registration procedure. You will 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 Servers
If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the signup procedure, you can get the service together with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over afterwards, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can enable Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will take just several mouse clicks.