According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate all the time. At the same time, this information is publicly available on WHOIS web sites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because anybody can see their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft isn’t that infrequent. For this reason, registrar companies have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without altering them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will view the details of the registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS inquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it is still not possible to conceal your info with some country-code extensions.