Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the genuine contact details of domain registrants on WHOIS check websites. Without such protection, the name, home address and email of any domain registrant will be freely visible. Supplying fake details during the registration process or altering the real details at a later time will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, require that the WHOIS details must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrar companies as a response to the arising concerns about potential identity theft. If the service is active, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be shown instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.