Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the actual contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Providing false information during the registration process or altering the genuine details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as an answer to the rising concerns for possible identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the registrar’s contact details will be displayed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code extensions that do not.