Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email of any domain owner will be publicly available. Giving false info upon registration or altering the authentic information afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the arising concerns about possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.