According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. In addition, this information is openly visible on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, especially in an age when identity fraud is not that unusual. That is the reason why registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your personal details with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names on the condition that their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and add Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment afterwards via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The procedure is astonishingly easy – once you sign in, you will need to go to the Registered Domains section where you’ll see a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered with us. For each of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if the service is enabled or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently active.