According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that uncommon. That is why domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your personal information with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting
If you’ve ordered a web hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal details safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such an option. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domains. Its color will tell you if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks. In this way, you can safeguard your personal details even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the web hosting account activation process. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.
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 activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you administer everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is where you can see all your active domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or disable the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.