According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Plus, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. This is the reason why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your info with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a cloud hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them effortlessly and to keep your personal info secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domain names. Its color will show you whether a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with just a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can shield your private details even if you haven’t enabled the service during the hosting account activation procedure. 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 Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service effortlessly. This takes just several mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-specific domain extensions that support this option and you will be able to see this beforehand, so you will not end up purchasing a service that we cannot provide.