In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be valid and accurate all the time. What’s more, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may not be a problem for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that unusual. That’s why registrar companies have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is activated, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal details with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can effortlessly activate Whois Privacy Protection for any domain name that you have registered with our company in case you have a cloud hosting account with us. This can be achieved through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you won’t need to go through different admin panels. In the same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain whose extension supports the service. The status of each icon will quickly show you if the Whois Privacy Protection service is activated for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service if you have not done so during the signup process. Moreover, you will also be able to renew or to disable the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain using the exact same icon and the change will take effect right away.