Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS websites. Without such protection, the name, postal address and email of any domain name registrant will be publicly accessible. Supplying fake information during the domain registration process or altering the real information afterwards will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing his/her ownership rights. The policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, demand that the WHOIS information must be valid and accurate all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by domain name registrars as a response to the arising concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is activated, the domain registrar’s contact details will be displayed 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 extensions that don’t.