When you register a domain name, you are asked to give an authentic address, email account 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 registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites too, so anybody can check your details and certain individuals may not be pleased with this. Consequently, plenty of registrar companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to the same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.