In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Plus, this information is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, 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 unusual. This is the reason why registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered with our company if you’ve got a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not have to sign in and out of different tools. In the same section where all your registered domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. You will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect straight away.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can add our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This requires just several clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel’s Registered Domains section, through which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated account. This is where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, using which you can activate, renew or disable the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you will be able to see this beforehand, so that you won’t end up buying a service that we cannot provide.