Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the genuine contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly visible. Giving false information during the domain name registration procedure or changing the real details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns about possible identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the registrar’s contact information will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code ones that do not.