According to the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. Furthermore, this info is freely available on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that rare. This is why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting plan from us, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains provided that their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation process or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – after you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domains that you have registered through our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will let you know if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently active.