According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Additionally, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that unusual. That is the reason why registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your personal info with certain country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting
If you’ve ordered a website hosting plan from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private info safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this option. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domains. Its colour will inform you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. In this way, you can protect your private information even if you have not activated the service upon signup. You’ll 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 us, you’ll be able to add Whois Privacy Protection to any of your domains by following several easy steps. If you order a registration/transfer during the account order process, you can get the service along with the domain. If you omit this step and you think things over later, you can enable the Whois Privacy Protection service from the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you can manage the whole 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 removing the Whois Privacy Protection service is just as simple and will take no more than a couple of mouse clicks.