According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. In addition, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that atypical. This is the reason why domain name registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do 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 personal info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company in case you’ve got a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you won’t have to use different interfaces. In the same section where all your registered domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly let you know if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you have not done so during the signup process. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using that same icon and the update will take effect immediately.