In accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. What’s more, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. Because of this, registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your info with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux shared web hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private data secure. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domains. Its color will let you know if a domain name is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. Thus, you can secure your private information even if you haven’t activated the service during the web hosting account activation procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This requires just several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer everything associated with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain name extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.