According to the policy approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be valid and accurate at all times. Additionally, this information is openly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in an age when identity fraud is not that infrequent. That is why registrars have launched a service that conceals the details of their clients without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it is active, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they make a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your details with certain country-code ones.