According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is freely visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and street addresses, especially in times when identity fraud is not that unusual. This is why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your private details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have ordered a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal information safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon next to each of your domains. Its color will inform you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks. In this way, you can secure your personal information even if you have not activated the service upon signup. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to hide the contact information associated with your domain and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will be able to activate our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the registration procedure or at any moment afterwards through your Hepsia Control Panel. The service is optional and can be added with a couple of clicks from the Control Panel’s Registered Domains section where all the domain names that you have registered through us will be listed alphabetically. You can order Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support this service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each domain name. In the exact same manner, you can also renew the service or remove it – in case you would like to transfer a domain to some other domain name registrar and you need the real email associated with the domain to be visible.