When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide an authentic address, email account and phone number in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is accessible to the public on WHOIS check sites too, so anyone can check your information and lots of individuals may not be happy with this. Consequently, plenty of registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this option.