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 at all times. At the same time, this information is publicly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that unusual. This is why domain name registrars have introduced a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still not possible to hide your private information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Website Hosting

If you have ordered a Linux website hosting package from us and you’ve registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them with ease and to keep your private information safe. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support such a service. In your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” logo on the right-hand side of each of your domains. Its colour will let you know whether a domain is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can protect your personal information even if you have not activated the service during the registration process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.