Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without protection, the name, address and email account of any domain name registrant will be openly visible. Supplying fake details upon registration or altering the authentic info later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact information will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.