Quote Originally Posted by DEVELISH View Post
Google seems to be a registrar, all registrars have access to the "real" whois database so privacy protecting your data is just for the first wave of "attack"
Actually, that isn't true. A registrar doesn't have any more access to Whois information than what one can see with whois.sc or any other lookup tool. That was one of the big issues when Registerfly went south... they had the only database that correlated their "private" registrations, and their database was in shambles, so when GoDaddy, who acquired the domains that Registerfly had held, was trying to get everything straightened out, there were cases where they had no idea who owned some of the domains that had been protected by Registerfly "privacy."

And I wouldn't be surprised if Google is an accredited registrar, but I've never seen them offering domain registration services.