According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Furthermore, this information is freely visible on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in times when identity theft is not that atypical. That is why registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a shared hosting package from our company and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your personal data secure. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each of your domain names. Its color will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. In this way, you can secure your private info even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account order process. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by following a couple of simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the signup process, you can get the service along with the domain name. If you omit this step and you change your mind later, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can manage the entire semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domain names that you register through us after signing up. Renewing or removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as easy and will require only a few clicks of the mouse.