According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. What’s more, this information is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that rare. That is the reason why registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their customers without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your info with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

You can effortlessly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you’ve registered through our company if you’ve got a shared web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the web hosting account, so you will not need to log in and out of different admin consoles. In the exact same section where all your registered domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the registration procedure. Additionally, you will also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the very same icon and the update will take effect right away.