To set up your host records, please follow the instructions given below:
- Sign in to your Namecheap account
- Enter My Account area by clicking on your username on the black bar at the top of the page
- Select Domains from the top vertical menu
- Click on Manage DNS in the left menu
- Click on the domain you wish to modify host records for
- Enter your host record settings and click Save Changes
The domain needs to have the nameservers set to our defaults (which are ns1.host.al & ns2.host.al) as demostrated in the image below: 
The DNS Management Link can be found under the domains menu. See the screen below for a visual example: 
The management of the domains has the following fields: 
|
Address Record Type |
Description |
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A (Address) |
Allows you to associate a host with an IPv4 address. The IP address that you use does not have to be on your network. For example:You can have the host record for www pointed to 207.46.130.14 (the address for the Microsoft web site). |
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AAAA (IPv6) |
Allows you to associate a host with an IPv6 address. The IP address that you use does not have to be on your network. For example: You can have the host record for www pointed to 2001:0db8:11a3:09d7:1f34:8a2e:07a0:765d |
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MXE (Mail Easy) |
Allows you to specify the address of your mail server. When you use a mail record, you must use an IP address in the address field. Note to professional users: Creating a mail record actually creates both the MX and A records in DNS. Also, when using multiple mail servers, a preference value of 10 is used on all entries. |
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MX (Mail) |
MX (Mail)can be either a host name under your domain name (For example: "mail3") or the name of a mail server (For example: "mail.yahoo.com."). NOTE:When using a mail server name, it should end with a period ("."). (If you forget the period and we recognize the TLD, we will automatically insert one). |
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CNAME (Alias) |
An alias record type is used to associate a host name with another host. The host that you wish to point to does not have to be on your network. For example:You could have the host record for www point to www.microsoft.com. You can also simply use "@" sign to represent your domain. Important: When you use a domain in the address field you must add a trailing period ("."). Unless you do so the name server will add your domain to the end of the domain given. |
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NS |
NS Records are primarily used if you want to break your domain into subdomains. Subdomains indicate you are delegating a portion of a domain name to a different group of nameservers, thus creating NS records to point the hostname (name of the subdomain) to different nameservers. |
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"*" record |
The star * record is a wildcard record which is used to include any records or sub-domains that you have not specified to catch any typos or mistakes. |
