Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also referred to as Privacy or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS sites. Without this service, the personal name, street address and email of any domain owner will be publicly accessible. Providing false details during the domain registration process or altering 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 name. 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 at all times. The Whois Privacy Protection service was launched by registrars as an answer to the increasing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the protection service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will appear instead of the domain registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that do not.
