According to the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Furthermore, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that atypical. That’s why registrar companies have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is 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 impossible to conceal your private info with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you have ordered a website hosting from our company and you’ve registered one or more domain names under your account, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without any effort and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will find an “Whois Privacy Protection” button on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will let you know if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with just a couple of mouse clicks. Thus, you can safeguard your private information even if you haven’t activated the service upon signup. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.