When you register a domain, you are requested to provide an authentic home address, email and phone number as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS websites too, so anybody can view your information and some individuals may not be pleased with that fact. As a result, many registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.
