Report released by U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week @ http://www.gao.gov states that 2.31 million domain names, about i.e. 5.14 percent used contact information that could not be true. And the false information could hamper cybercrime investigations that rely on accurate information to locate domain owners for questioning.

WHOIS information basically provides the Domain Registrant Information, where you check who is the owner of the Domain Name, his address, phone number, domain creation & expiration date, etc. ICANN policy specifically provides that true information is compulsorily to be provided by the registrant and on his failure to do so, the registrar of Domain has right to block the Domain name. Though some registrars also provide the option to the customers to hide the WHOIS information, on the payment of some additional fees, which to some extent gives the option to the violator to work undercover.

Mainly the wrong WHOIS information is provided by persons who intend to indulge in some kind of violations like copyrights, etc. We dealt with such a case, which was a case of Passing-Off, though we were not able to get to the violater because of wrong WHOIS information but were able to get the Domain suspended as junk information was provided in the WHOIS information.