Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain owners on WHOIS check web sites. Without protection, the name, street address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Giving fake information during the domain name registration procedure or altering the genuine details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing their ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code extensions that do not.