About the article
This article is a dedicated branch of "AMIMOTO Essential Training" for Namecheap. Before following this instructions, you'll need to follow above guide to register domain name to AMIMOTO and get domain verification records.
Sample domain and DNS records
Sample Domain:
- example.com
- www.example.com
Sample Shifter Domains:
- def456.cloudfront.net.
Sample Validation Records
For example.com
Name: _abcde.example.com
Type: CNAME
Value: _01234.acm-validations.aws.
For www.example.com
Name: _hijkl.www.example.com
Type: CNAME
Value: _56789.acm-validations.aws.
Setting up validation DNS records
1. Navigate Login page
https://ap.www.namecheap.com/Domains/DomainList
2. Click [Manage] under [TRANSFER IN] pulldown menu
3. Click [Advanced DNS] menu
4. Click [ADD NEW RECORD] button to add validation records
5. Input validation record for example.com
Type: CNAME Record
Host: _abcd.
Value: _01234.acm-validations.aws.
TTL: Automatic
Click [✓] button to save changes
6. Input validation record for www.example.com
Type: CNAME Record
Name: _hijkl.www.
Value: _56789.acm-validations.aws.
TTL: Automatic
Click [✓] button to save changes
7. Confirm added validation records
Setting up DNS records, after completed domain verification.
8. Click [ADD NEW RECORD] to add an ALIAS record
After completed domain verification, let's set up CNAME record for your domain name.
ALIAS record forexample.com
Type: ALIAS Record
Name: @
Value: def456.cloudfront.net.
TTL: Automatic
Click [✓] button to save changes
9. Also, input CNAME record for www.example.com
Type: CNAME Record
Name: www.
Value: def456.cloudfront.net.
TTL: Automatic
Click [✓] button to save changes
10. Confirm all records
That's all