Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS sites. Without such protection, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name registrant will be freely accessible. Providing fake info during the domain registration procedure or altering the authentic information at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the increasing concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is activated, the registrar company’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that don’t.