When you register a domain name, you need to give a genuine address, email and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS check sites as well, so anyone can see your details and some people may not be comfortable with that fact. Consequently, numerous domain name registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. At the moment, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.
