According to the policies adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Additionally, this info is publicly available on WHOIS lookup websites and while this may be okay for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, because everyone can see their names and their personal email and home addresses, all the more so in times when identity theft isn’t that uncommon. This is why registrars have come up with a service that hides the details of their clients without editing 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 perform a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic domain extensions, but it’s still impossible to hide your private information with certain country-code ones.