According to the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Plus, this info is publicly visible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since everyone can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that unusual. Because of this, registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your details with certain country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

You can quickly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered through our company in case you have a cloud web hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you manage the hosting account, so you won’t have to go through different Control Panels. In the exact same section where all your active domains will be listed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for every domain whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a specific domain name or not and by clicking on that icon you can activate the service in case you have not done so upon signup. Furthermore, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using that same icon and the update will take effect instantly.