# Hiding DNS (CNAME and TXT records) from Whois
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125
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**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125 "2020-05-14T11:35:19Z")
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### Author:  [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125/1 "2020-05-14T11:35:19Z")
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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### Author:  [@Christophe\_HK](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Christophe_HK)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125/2 "2020-05-14T11:39:26Z")
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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### Author:  [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125/3 "2020-05-14T11:57:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@Christophe\_HK](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Christophe_HK)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125/4 "2020-05-14T12:11:10Z")
Hum OK, I didn’t understood well…
I am not sure you can, because of legals. Not sure…
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### Author:  [@Christophe\_HK](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Christophe_HK)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125/5 "2020-05-14T12:14:26Z")
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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### Author:  [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/hiding-dns-cname-and-txt-records-from-whois/9125/6 "2020-05-14T13:40:15Z")
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.