When you register a domain, you have to give a valid address, email and phone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is visible to the general public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anyone can check your info and a lot of individuals may not be OK with this. As a consequence, lots of registrar companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact info and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. Now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.
