When you register a domain name, you are asked to provide a valid street address, email and telephone in accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is visible to the public on WHOIS web sites as well, so anybody can see your information and a lot of individuals may not be delighted with this. Consequently, many registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s info and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will view the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. As of now, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support this service.