In accordance with the policies approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and accurate at all times. Moreover, this info is publicly available on WHOIS websites and while this may be okay for companies, it may not be very acceptable for individuals, because everybody can view their names and their personal postal and email addresses, particularly in an age when identity theft is not that rare. Because of this, registrar companies have come up with a service that conceals the details of their customers without modifying them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s activated, people will see the details of the domain registrar, not those of the domain owner, if they make a WHOIS enquiry. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic TLD extensions, but it’s still impossible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code ones.