When you register a domain name, you are requested to give a genuine address, email account and telephone in accordance with the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the general public on WHOIS lookup sites too, so anyone can view your information and certain individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, a lot of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to one and the same service. Today, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.