Domain Privacy Protection

In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Moreover, this info is publicly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft isn’t that atypical. That’s why domain registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is activated, people will view 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 extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your information with some country-code extensions.

: Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account itself, so you won’t need to log in and out of different systems. In the very same section where all your active domain names will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a certain domain name or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the account activation process. Plus, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the update will take effect right away.; Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’d like to conceal the contact info for your domain name and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account with us, you’ll be able to add our Whois Privacy Protection service either during the signup process or at any moment afterwards through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The service is optional and can be activated with several clicks from the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel where all the domains that you have registered through us will be displayed alphabetically. You can activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of the Top-Level Domain extensions that support the service by simply clicking the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon on the right-hand side of each domain. In the same way, you can also renew the service or remove it – if you’d like to transfer a domain to a different domain registrar and you need the real email associated with the domain name to be visible.