When you register a domain name, you are asked to provide a valid home address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anybody can check your details and lots of people may not be comfortable with this. Consequently, many registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can swiftly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you have registered with our company in case you’ve got a cloud hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the same Hepsia Control Panel, via which you administer the hosting account, so you will not need to switch between different user interfaces. In the same section where all your active domains will be displayed, there will be an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon for each domain name whose extension supports this service. The status of each icon will quickly let you know whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a given domain or not and by clicking that icon you can enable the service in case you haven’t done so upon signup. Additionally, 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 update will take effect immediately.