Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact details of domain name registrants on WHOIS web sites. Without protection, the personal name, postal address and email of any domain owner will be publicly visible. Giving false info during the domain name registration procedure or changing the authentic information at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain name registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the growing concerns for potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.
