Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact info of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup sites. Without protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying false details during the domain name registration process or altering the authentic information later will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing their domain name ownership rights. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the rising concerns for 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 domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.
