When you register a domain name, you are asked to give a genuine home address, email and telephone in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can view your details and certain individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, plenty of registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the client’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 known as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the same service. As of now, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support this option.
