According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Plus, this information is publicly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. That’s the reason why domain name registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If 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 domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private info with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting
If you have ordered a shared web hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your private info secure. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign to the right of each of your domains. Its color will let you know whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your personal details even if you haven’t activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you choose to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by completing several simple steps. If you order a registration or a transfer during the signup procedure, you can get the service along with the domain name. In case you omit this step and you think things over later, you can add the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, via which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated server account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through our company after the signup procedure. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require no more than several mouse clicks.