When you register a domain name, you have to provide an authentic street address, email and phone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This info, however, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check websites too, so anybody can check your info and some people may not be pleased with this. As a result, lots of companies have come up with the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which conceals the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the same service. At the moment, 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 do not support this option.