According to the policy adopted by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the contact information a domain name is registered with must be correct and up to date at all times. Furthermore, this information is openly visible on WHOIS websites and while this may not be a problem for firms, it may not be very convenient for individuals, since anyone can view their names and their personal email and postal addresses, all the more so in times when identity fraud is not that infrequent. This is why registrar companies have introduced a service that hides the details of their customers without changing them. The service is called Whois Privacy Protection. If it’s active, people will view the details of the domain registrar, not the domain owner’s, if they do a WHOIS search. The Whois Privacy Protection service is supported by all generic Top-Level Domain extensions, but it is still impossible to hide your details with certain country-code extensions.