According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Plus, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in an age when identity theft is not that atypical. That’s the reason why registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting package from our company, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is really easy – once you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing a few easy steps. In case you order a registration or a transfer during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind at a later time, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you can manage the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can turn on the Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through our company after signup. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will take only a couple of clicks.