In accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Furthermore, this info is openly accessible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for organizations, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal street and email addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. For this reason, registrar companies have launched a service that hides 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 company, not those of the domain owner, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your details with some country-code extensions.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Enabling the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain registered with us is unbelievably easy in case you have a Linux cloud website hosting package. You can do this through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer your hosting account – you will just need to visit the Registered Domains section where all your domain names will be displayed and to click the “Whois Privacy Protection” symbol, which will be available for each generic or country-code domain that supports the protection service. This is also the place where you can renew the service or deactivate it altogether – in case you’d like to transfer a particular domain name to a different domain registrar. With our Whois Privacy Protection service, you can conceal your personal or corporate contact details with just a few clicks of the mouse and stop worrying that your details might be acquired by unauthorized people.