According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Plus, this information is freely available on WHOIS 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 postal and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that unusual. This is why registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your information with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you’ve ordered a shared hosting from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your personal info safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will show you whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can activate Whois Privacy Protection with only several mouse clicks. Thus, you can shield your personal info even if you haven’t activated the service during the hosting account activation procedure. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.