Hiding DNS (CNAME and TXT records) from Whois

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Has anyone thought of hiding the CNAMEs and TXT records in order to prevent the public from Whois queries the domain you use to point to GlideApps?

I understand that these need to be public to communicate with the host, however I’m wondering if you are aware of a workaround to encrypt the records?

I host my app on a subdomain belonging to my main domain and would like an additional layer of privacy.

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I am not sure you can prevent Whois requests, but some domain name providers, such as Google domain, provide a useful service hiding the real owner name… Thats what I did.

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Yes, that’s helpful for hiding the domain owner’s name, I have that too.

But I’m wondering how to specifically hide those DNS records.

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Hum OK, I didn’t understood well…

I am not sure you can, because of legals. Not sure…

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Confirmation : You can’t. It would defeat the primary purpose of the dns system: To map ip addresses to domain (or subdomain) names. For that reason all dns entries are public.

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I thought Cloudflare might do the trick if you use Proxies, however it seems you need a Business Plan with them to do so.

Thanks Cristophe for checking.

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