In accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Additionally, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, particularly in an age when identity fraud is not that rare. For this reason, registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domains in case their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is stunningly easy – after you sign in, you will have to go to the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you whether the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can disable the service if it is currently enabled.