In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Additionally, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud is not that uncommon. That is why domain name registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your private information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you get a cloud web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support this service. You can register or 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 procedure is very easy – after you sign in, you’ll have to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will let you know if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you register a domain under it, you can enable our Whois Privacy Protection service without any difficulty. This requires only several clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated web hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, using which you can order, renew or remove the Whois Privacy Protection service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-specific extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up requesting a service that we cannot provide.