Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be freely accessible. Supplying fake information during the domain name registration process or changing the authentic info afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.