When you register a domain name, you need to provide a genuine address, email account and phone as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup web sites as well, so anyone can see your information and lots of people may not be satisfied with that fact. Consequently, plenty of domain registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this option.