ICANN states;
"...provision of false Whois information can be grounds for cancellation of their
domain name registration. Registrants must review their Whois data, and make
any corrections..."
Source: http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/wdrp.htm
Domain names registered with us have an option to enable WHOIS privacy protection. To increase your privacy, we'll act as a forwarding service, allowing the WHOIS information to show contact details that are valid ways to reach you (and which therefore meet the legal requirement that we publish your contact information), but which are less revealing. Specifically:
This system gives you privacy protection against junk mail, sales calls, and spammers. We'll discard junk postal mail (including most non-registered mail) sent to our post office box, we'll tell most callers you prefer to be contacted only at addresses or phone numbers you post on your Web site (if any), and we'll apply our strongest spam filtering to the forwarding e-mail address. We will forward any registered postal mail or phone messages related to legal issues, and our mail servers will forward non-spam e-mail to you.
Although this system enhances your privacy, your rights are still protected:
Your name (or company name, if you entered one on our forms) is still listed in the WHOIS records as the domain's legal owner, maintaining your ownership rights. Unlike some other companies, we never list ourselves as the owner; doing so can make it difficult for you to transfer your domain name.
Important e-mail such as domain name transfer approval notices will still reach you.
The privacy system provides excellent protection against unwanted marketing and spam. It also provides good protection against casual strangers viewing your personal contact details. However, we should emphasize that it isn't foolproof. In particular, we may release your direct contact information to parties who have a legitimate need to contact you for legal reasons (such as law firms alleging copyright or trademark violations). We may also disable the privacy feature if we receive reasonable allegations that you have violated our Terms of Service.
In addition, WHOIS privacy for postal addresses and phone numbers may not be available for domain names ending in .us due to legal restrictions from the United States Department of Commerce, which sets the requirements for all .us domain names. We still provide e-mail forwarding for .us domain names, though.
If you are extremely concerned about the privacy of your personal information, you may wish to use a post office box address or other non-revealing information, such as a work address and phone number, to make sure that more personal contact information is never revealed under any circumstances.
(We do require that you provide us with valid contact information so we can forward legal notices and other important messages to you. We also need to be able to contact you if there is a problem with your account. Please do not provide us with false contact information, or your account will be suspended and your domain name registration canceled.)
