When you register a domain name, you are obliged to supply a valid home address, email and phone in accordance with the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS check websites as well, so anybody can see your info and certain people may not be delighted with this. As a consequence, a lot of registrar companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s information and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these terms refer to one and the same service. At the moment, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this service.