In accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Additionally, this information is freely available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. This is why registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without altering them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS lookup. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your private information with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Web Hosting

Activating the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered through us is extremely easy in case you have a Linux shared web hosting. You can do this through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you’ll simply have to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domains will be listed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” icon, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain that supports the Whois Privacy Protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the Whois Privacy Protection service or disable it altogether – in case you want to transfer a particular domain name to a different company. With the Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your private or business contact info with just a few mouse clicks and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthorized individuals.