According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. At the same time, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that unusual. That is the reason why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case 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 enable the service for any of your domains at any time afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – after you log in, you’ll need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with us. For each of them you’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will inform you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can disable the service if it is currently activated.