It's what it says, for some extensions, whois information is managed by the registry. Namecheap is legally obliged to provide the registrant information to the

It's what it says, for some extensions, whois information is managed by the registry. Namecheap is legally obliged to provide the registrant information to the registry and they publish the whois information. The same restriction also applies to other name registrars like Gandi: https://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/private-registration https://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/private-registration