When you register a domain, you are required to give an authentic home address, email account and phone in accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS websites as well, so anyone can check your information and lots of people may not be satisfied with this. Consequently, lots of domain registrars have come up with 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 registrar company, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support the service.