In accordance with the policies adopted 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. Plus, this info is publicly available on WHOIS web sites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. This is the reason why domain registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s activated, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your info with certain country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Hosting
You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company in case you have a hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account itself, so you will not have to use different platforms. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so during the account activation procedure. Plus, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the same icon and the update will take effect instantly.
Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you’d like to hide the contact information associated with your domain and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the account order procedure or at any time later through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is optional and can be activated with several mouse clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you’ve registered with our company will be displayed in alphabetical order. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the extensions that support the service by simply clicking on the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo next to each domain name. In the exact same fashion, you can also renew the service or turn it off – if you want to transfer a domain to another domain registrar and you need the actual email associated with the domain name to be visible.