Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email of any domain name owner will be freely available. Giving fake information during the domain registration procedure or changing the authentic details later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the rising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact information will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that don’t.