In accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. What’s more, this info is publicly available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that atypical. That’s why registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your private details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is astonishingly easy – after you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you have registered with us. For each one of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will let you know whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.