Turns out that Namecheap is a very large hosting provider and that it actually accepts BTC for payments. You'll find a lot of BTC-related websites to be hosted there. Hardly a surprise. And WhoisGuard? That's an anti-spam feature offered by Namecheap, to prevent a users real email address from showing up in these whois-queries. You'd be a fool not to use it's available.
And every domain registration includes one year WhoisGuard for free anyway.