In accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Plus, this info is freely visible on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that unusual. That is the reason why domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without changing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, 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’s still not possible to hide your private info with certain country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Website Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux shared website hosting package from us and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without difficulty and to keep your private details safe. Of course, this can be done only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign on the right-hand side of each of your domain names. Its colour will tell you if a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks. Thus, you can shield your personal info even if you have not enabled the service during the registration process. You’ll be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.