In accordance with the policy adopted 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. Besides, this information is freely available on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for corporations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anyone can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, especially in times when identity fraud isn’t that infrequent. That is the reason why registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it’s enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain name extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your info with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

If you order a cloud web hosting package from us, you’ll be able to activate Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names if their extensions support this option. You can register/transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domains at any moment later through the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is really easy – after you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you will find a list of all the domains that you have registered through us. For each of them you’ll notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know if the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain, or you can deactivate the service if it is currently active.