Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the real contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without this service, the name, address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely visible. Supplying false information upon registration or altering the real info at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be correct and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as an answer to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that do not.