According to the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the contact info a domain name is registered with must be valid and up to date at all times. What’s more, this information is openly available on WHOIS lookup sites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anybody can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that atypical. For this reason, domain registrars have come up with a service that conceals the details of their clients without editing them. The service is referred to as Whois Privacy Protection. In case it is active, people will see the details of the domain 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’s still not possible to conceal your personal details with certain country-code ones.