In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Moreover, this info is publicly available 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 postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that rare. Because of this, registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you’ve ordered a shared hosting service from us and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domains. Its color will tell you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few mouse clicks. In this way, you can protect your private information even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service during the signup procedure. You will 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 decide to order a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following several simple steps. If you register or transfer a domain during the account activation process, you can get the service together with the domain. If you skip this step and you change your mind afterwards, you can order the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you can administer 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 with our company after signing up. Renewing or disabling the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will require just a few clicks.