According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. What’s more, this information is freely accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that uncommon. That is the reason why domain registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you have ordered a shared hosting from us and you have registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private info intact. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo to the right of each of your domain names. Its color will inform you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just several clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private information even if you have not activated the Whois Privacy Protection service upon registration. You will be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.