Whois Privacy Protection, occasionally also referred to as WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact information of domain registrants on WHOIS lookup websites. Without protection, the name, address and email of any domain registrant will be openly available. Providing fake information during the domain registration process or altering the real information at a later time will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the registrant losing his/her ownership of the domain name. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), require that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as an answer to the growing concerns for potential identity fraud. If the protection service is activated, the domain name registrar’s contact info will be shown instead of the registrant’s upon a WHOIS check. Most domain names support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are some country-code ones that don’t.
