When you register a domain name, you are asked to give a genuine home address, email and phone as per the policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS lookup sites as well, so anybody can see your information and a lot of individuals may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, many domain registrars have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also known as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.