When you register a domain name, you are required to supply an authentic street address, email account and telephone number as per the policy adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, though, is not kept only by the domain registrar, but is available to the public on WHOIS check web sites too, so anyone can view your info and certain individuals may not be happy with that fact. Consequently, numerous registrar companies have come up with the so-called ID Protection service, which conceals the domain registrant’s contact details and upon a WHOIS check, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s. This service is also called Privacy Protection or WHOIS Protection, but all these names refer to the very same service. Now, most of the top-level domain names around the globe allow ID Protection to be enabled, but there are still country-code extensions that don’t support the service.