According to the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. Furthermore, this info is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud isn’t that unusual. This is why domain registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their customers without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you have a shared hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account, so you will not need to log in and out of different admin interfaces. In the exact same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of this icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can enable the service if you haven’t done so during the account activation process. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect straight away.