According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. In addition, this information is publicly accessible on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can view their names and their personal home and email addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft is not that atypical. That’s why domain name registrars have launched a service that hides the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will view 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 extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your personal information with some country-code ones.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names as long as their extensions support this service. You can register/transfer a domain name and enable Whois Privacy Protection during the registration process or you can enable the service for any of your domain names at any time later via the Hepsia Control Panel. The process is remarkably easy – after you sign in, you will need to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domains that you have registered with our company. For each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, which will let you know whether the service is activated or not. By clicking it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently enabled.