In accordance with the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date all the time. Besides, this information is publicly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be OK for companies, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because anyone can see their names and their personal street and email addresses, particularly in times when identity fraud isn’t that rare. That is why domain name registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is enabled, people will see the details of the registrar company, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic top-level domain name extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your personal information with some country-code extensions.