When you register a domain name, you are requested to provide a valid home address, email and telephone as per the policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS websites as well, so anybody can check your details and many individuals may not be satisfied with this. As a consequence, numerous registrars have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’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 called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to the exact same service. Today, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that don’t support this service.