According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Besides, this information is openly available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that uncommon. Because of this, 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. If it is active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is exceptionally easy – once you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you have registered through our company. For each one of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to order a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domain names by taking a couple of easy steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation 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 Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, through which you can administer the whole semi-dedicated account. This is also the place where you can activate Whois Privacy Protection for all other domains that you register through us after the signup process. Renewing or removing the service is just as simple and will require no more than a few clicks of the mouse.