According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date all the time. Furthermore, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that atypical. For this reason, domain registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your private details with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
If you get a cloud web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the signup process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is amazingly easy – after you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will inform you whether 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
In case you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without difficulty. This takes just a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, through which you manage everything related to your semi-dedicated account. This is the place where you can see all your registered domain names and for each of them you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, using which you can enable, renew or deactivate the service. Of course, this can be done only with generic and country-code extensions that are Whois Privacy Protection-eligible and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up ordering a service that we cannot provide.