When you register a domain, you are obliged to supply a genuine address, email and telephone number in accordance with the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This info, though, is not kept only by the domain name registrar, but is accessible to the general public on WHOIS sites too, so anyone can see your information and some individuals may not be pleased with this. As a result, many domain registrars have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the client’s contact details and upon a WHOIS lookup, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Whois Privacy Protection or Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Today, most of the TLDs around the globe allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.