Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving fake details during the domain registration procedure or changing the real information later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact details will be listed instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that do not.