well the deal with namecheap is that they offer free whois protection, i hadnt used them before but decided recently to try them out.. I wasn't really interested in the whois protection but it comes free with every domain so sure why not.
so the next day i go do a whois on my newly registered domain and lo and behold my real info is on there. now as i said i wasn't looking for whois protection so i wasnt too upset other than because i assumed i was getting whois protection i gave my home address home phone number instead of my business address and business number i normally would use.
so i fire off an email to namecheap asking why my whois is not protected.
they informed me that whois protection does not kick in for 24-48 hours after i register the domain.
now many people are aware that companies like DOMAINTOOLS.com ( whois.sc ) log all changes to domain records so thus it logs my real info and the whois guard enabled the next day..
i.e. if you own a namecheap domain with whois guard and go check it at
www.whois.sc/domain.com you will see TWO history's for your records. one with the whoisguard , and one with the real info.