According to the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. At the same time, this info is freely visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that rare. That’s why domain name registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they perform a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to hide your private details with some country-code ones.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting package from us, you will be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any time later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is really easy – once you log in, you’ll 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’ll see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know if the service is enabled or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently enabled.