When you register a domain, you are requested to provide a valid address, email and phone in accordance with the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is available to the public on WHOIS check sites as well, so anyone can see your info and lots of individuals may not be happy with this. As a consequence, numerous companies have launched the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the domain name registrant’s details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner. This service is also popular as Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these expressions refer to one and the same service. Currently, most of the top-level domain names around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be activated, but there are still country-specific extensions that do not support the service.