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A domain name is the web address or URL where visitors find your site. A custom domain gives your site a professional look, strengthens your brand, and helps visitors find you on the web.
A domain is your website’s address on the internet (like example.com). A hosting package provides the servers and resources that store and serve your site’s files to visitors. You typically need both: a domain for people to reach your site, and hosting to actually run and display the site.
Usually, the registrar’s physical location is not very important for most people. What matters more is the registrar’s pricing, renewal terms, security, support quality, and whether it reliably manages your domain settings and transfers. The country of your domain registration does not impact your website loading times or any other metrics, but this impacts safety of your information and quality of customer service. Choose the reliable domain names provider.
Usually it does. Without the ID protection all the personal details of an owner and admin/tech contacts are publicly exposed in WHOIS database. The ID protection service hides your details from public registries. For some TLDs (like .au) it is not possible to hide the details due to TLD's policies.
Important: The ID Protection service hides personal details or replaces them with anonymous ones in the public databases, but it does not remove the details from the actual domain records.