Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that conceals the authentic contact info of domain name owners on WHOIS check sites. Without such protection, the name, street address and email account of any domain owner will be freely visible. Providing fake details during the 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 their domain ownership rights. The policies approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be valid and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by domain name registrars as a response to the growing concerns about potential identity fraud. If the service is enabled, the domain name registrar’s contact details will be listed instead of the client’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, even though there are certain country-code ones that don’t.
