In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Besides, this info is freely available on WHOIS sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal email and postal addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud isn’t that rare. For this reason, domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting plan from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and add Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is unbelievably easy – after you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll find a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with our company. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will inform you if the service is enabled 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 enabled.