When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply a genuine home address, email and phone number as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anyone can view your details and a lot of individuals may not be OK with this. Consequently, numerous domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the very same service. Nowadays, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

You can quickly enable Whois Privacy Protection for any domain that you’ve registered through our company in case you’ve got a cloud website hosting account with us. This can be accomplished through the very same Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer the web hosting account itself, so you will not need to log in and out of 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 and every domain name whose extension supports this option. The status of that icon will quickly show you whether the Whois Privacy Protection service is enabled for a certain domain or not and by clicking that icon you can add the service if you have not done so during the signup process. Besides, you’ll also be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any domain name using the very same icon and the update will take effect right away.