Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also called Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the real contact information of domain name registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without this service, the personal name, postal address and email account of any domain name owner will be freely available. Providing false info during the domain name registration procedure or altering the real info afterwards will just not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrars as a response to the growing concerns for possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the domain registrar’s contact details will show up instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are certain country-code extensions that don’t.