According to the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. Moreover, this information is openly accessible on WHOIS lookup web sites and while this may be OK for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal home and email addresses, especially in times when identity theft is not that rare. That’s the reason why domain name registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is enabled, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still not possible to conceal your details with some country-code extensions.
Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting
If you have ordered a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them without effort and to keep your private data safe. Of course, this can be done only with the extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” icon to the right of each of your domain names. Its colour will tell you whether a domain name is Whois Privacy Protected or not and in the second case, you can enable Whois Privacy Protection with only several clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can protect your personal info even if you have not added the Whois Privacy Protection service during the hosting account activation procedure. You will be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domains just as easily.