: Is it insecure to make the CPanel username same as domain name? If I set my cPanel username same as domain name, then everybody already knows my cPanel username. Does it pose security risk?

@XinRu657

You could set your cPanel username as the same as your domain name, but people may not know that this is what you're doing if you do that unless you tell them specifically that's what you're doing.

If people know what your username is, you've just made half of the guessing work done for possible hackers. It's quite common that the username will be the first eight letters of the domain name. For example, if your domain name was abccompany.com, chances are good that the default username will be abccompa or abccompany and hackers will try this along with the common dictionary word passwords like "baseball" or "password123".

Most web hosts encourage their clients to use a random username to make it more difficult to guess the username and password. So it is not recommended to make your cPanel username the same as your domain name.

Source: I owned a web hosting company for the past 16 years.

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@Radia820

Of course. If you do so, you'll make hacking process easier.

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