Whois Privacy Protection, at times also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact details of domain name owners on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, address and email account of any domain owner will be freely visible. Supplying fake details during the registration process or changing the real information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is active, the registrar company’s contact information will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that do not.