According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. At the same time, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud isn’t that unusual. For this reason, domain registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your information with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with our company is remarkably easy in case you have a shared website hosting. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your web hosting account – you will just have to go to the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” logo, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain name that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you would like to transfer a specific domain to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or business contact details with just several mouse clicks and stop worrying that your information might be acquired by unsolicited people.