In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Plus, this info is publicly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everybody can see their names and their personal email and street addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that uncommon. Because of this, domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your private info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support the service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon signup or you can enable the service for any of your domains at any time later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is stunningly easy – once you log in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each one of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will tell you whether the service is active or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.