In accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. What’s more, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS web sites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity theft is not that infrequent. That’s why domain registrars have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make 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 personal information with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting
You can easily enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company if you’ve got a shared hosting account with us. This can be done through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to sign in and out of different admin panels. In the same section where all your active domain names will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each and every domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of that icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a particular domain or not and by clicking on that icon you can add the service in case you have not done so upon signup. In addition, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the same icon and the update will take effect immediately.