In accordance with 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 up to date all the time. Plus, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud is not that infrequent. That’s the reason why registrar companies have come up with a service that hides the details of their customers without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to conceal your details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name registered through our company is really easy if you’ve got a website hosting. You can achieve this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you manage your web hosting account – you’ll simply need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each gTLD or ccTLD that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or disable it altogether – if you would like to transfer a certain domain to a different domain name registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can hide your private or business contact details with only a few clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthorized individuals.