According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Furthermore, this info is publicly accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud isn’t that atypical. This is why registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your personal info with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains as long as their extensions support this service. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the account activation procedure or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The procedure is very easy – once you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, 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 deactivate the service if it is currently activated.