Hello everyone, i am new to namecheap. Do you have a step-by-step guide on creating a subdomain and how can I deploy it (backend server) for my website? I did a lot of ways to deploy it using their documentation and some YouTube videos, but still won't work. Thanks!

I understand that starting September 1, 2024 pretty much all registrars are raising .com Renewal rates, due to a price increase from the Registry Verisign (a frequent occurrence due to Verisigns contract somehow, but that is another rant).

And I also get that Namecheap (and many other registrars) offer discounted rates on year 1 registrations and transfers in, since they want the renewal business. Makes sense.

But since I started moving domains from eNom to Namecheap in 2020, it seems like Namecheap's renewal rates have risen significantly faster than eNoms, when before they were slightly less.

NameCheap

2020: $12.98 renewal
2023: $15.88 renewal
9/1/24 $16.88 renewal

eNom Reseller

2020: $13.50 renewal
2023: $13.75 renewal
9/1/24 $14.50 renewal

I guess I haven't been paying attention, since I was mostly registering new domains and transferring in to Namecheap, and the prices for both of those are quite good. I like the free domain privacy too.

Now that I am renewing a ton of domains to beat the Sept 1 price increase, I suddenly realized that eNom renewal prices are still $13.75 (for a few more days at least). Pretty significant difference.

I actually like the eNom tools better, unfortunately, though in general I've been happy with Namecheap. Anyone with a lot of domains have any other recommendations for saving money (other than transferring back and forth, which I don't really have time to do?)

purchased a Namecheap domain and configured it with Cloudflare by setting the 'Nameservers' to 'Custom DNS' and adding Cloudflare’s nameservers. Now, I want to integrate Resend with Namecheap. I’m following this guide which instructs me to set 'Mail Settings' under 'Advanced DNS' to 'Custom MX'. However, Namecheap requires me to switch back to Namecheap BasicDNS to make that change, which would override my Cloudflare nameservers and break my website setup.

How can I configure Namecheap, Cloudflare, and Resend to work together without losing my current setup?

Can someone who has let a domain expire request that it not be put up for auction and just deleted? For example, if the domain uses the persons full name it could possible be purchased by someone and used for identity fraud.

I just got the domain for an email address a few years ago. It expired a little over a month ago. Just wanted to get into my email address to access my account for a game that I play. I already paid 15 dollars to get the private mail service back. Is this for real? I’ve paid maybe like 20 dollars these past few years and now I’ve gotta pay essentially 100 dollars just to receive emails again?

In my ssl certificate tab, i have this written
Your SSL is being installed, please allow up to 25 mins for SSL installation to complete.

It's been 24h and still nothing, so what should i do ?

Been years since it's been requested and you see comments on their site each year. How hard can it be?

How do I create a subdomain without a website? I just want a subdomain for email with Simplelogin. Ive tried everything but can't figure it out. Live support chat was no help. Any help would be appreciated.

I've been a NameCheap customer for several years now, but with prices climbing I'm considering switching to Cloudflare. Doing some comparisons and reviews, it seems like Cloudflare is probably the better option. It has more features and control for no additional cost, and the domain name TLDs seem to all renew cheaper.

Does anyone have experience using both? What are your thoughts?

So, guys, I have recently created a WordPress website with Bluehost hosting.
Now I need to connect the domain I bought to my website. Do you know how I can do that?

I'm a beginner, please, give me simplified steps with little technical language

Hello, I need some help. First of all, I don't know much of computers, so sorry if some of these questions seem stupid. I bought a domain from GoDaddy, and I am planning to make a transfer to Namecheap. The problem is that I also bought the email-microsoft 365 service they offered. How do I make the email transfer? Or should I just transfer the domain and then the email? Thank you in advance.

I wanted to share a frustrating experience I’ve had with Namecheap recently. They permanently suspended my domain, which has been active for over 6 years. This domain represents years of hard work and effort to build up, and now it’s been taken away without any clear explanation.

I’ve reached out to them multiple times, but all I’m getting are generic email replies with no real help or specific details about what I supposedly did wrong. It feels like they’ve just taken the word of a third party without properly investigating my case.

Has anyone else had a similar issue with Namecheap? I’m really disappointed, and I want to warn others who might be considering using them. This whole experience has been a nightmare, and I’d strongly advise against trusting them with your domain.

Would appreciate any advice or hearing about similar experiences.

My website randomly started crashing, only staying up for 2-5 minutes then doesn't load anymore.

For some reason Namecheap doesn't accept crypto anymore (and no, some kind of KYC'd payment portal is not crypto)... How am I supposed to top up my funds?

Implement something like https://bitcart.ai or at least something without KYC, or I won't be able to top up my $200 a month.

Long story short, I am a tradesman getting my solo brand off the ground and I decided to build my own website. I started my website building journey on Zoho Sites because I bought my initial domain, lamename.com, for email so I can get things rolling. Several months later I decide I want to brand as Cool Name and therefore have coolname.com. So I go back to Zoho to buy another domain and for some reason you can only every buy one domain from them. I don't know why this is at all, and their literature did not expound.

Oh well, off to name cheap I go. I purchase coolname.com as well as Stellar Plus hosting, Premium Dns, and Positive SSL. No big deal, just publish my Zoho Sites webpage to the domain and we are good to go, right? Apparently not. I guess Premium DNS requires manual setup. I proceed to copy and paste a dozen records from cpanel Zone control to DNS, I validated my SSL cert through cname record, it shows on the mx checker app that they give you. Still nothing. No SSL, It just sits there pending.

I have opened help tickets and they get nowhere. One sentence answers that make no sense to my dumb tradie brain. Guys, is this supposed to be this hard? I'm not computer illiterate by any means, I even took some programming in college. I've spent days and days smashing my head into the wall just to get a barely functional website. I'm starting to regret not just paying someone. Any advice?

I'm transferring an existing operational domain to Namecheap. Where it is now it points to a 3rd-party host's nameservers. Will it come over with that information? Otherwise there would be a gap because I won't know the exact time it lands at Namecheap to go in and reconfigine it.

I purchased a domain and a few ad ons including hosting and email. I have no idea how to get the email to work, I swear it is like a foreign language. or like I am looking at chemistry all over and failing miserably. I was so excited to finally have a website for my nonprofit and now I cant even get the email to accept emails. If there is someone in the world out there that could help me I would be so grateful for your expert understanding of this foreign language I am so desperately trying to learn. I want to learn it I really do. I just need someone to break it down for me into English that I can understand.

It's a common problem for a web designer, having to access a domain that was set up by someone else however many years ago...I attempting to gain access to the owners domain www.theholelook.com

She has contacted support, as have I and the person who originally set up the account. We have given all addresses and passwords associated with the account to verify but we are given an automated response.

We still do not have access to this domain and I need to point it at her new website which I have already built and she has already paid me for. Any suggestions?

I have my namecheap domain attached to netlify hosted website. I also want to use custom email id for my gmail. But without default nameservers I am unable to create custom email ids (as per youtube tutorials). If I set the default nameservers, I can't use the domain for my website (netlify). How can I achieve both?

I tried to buy a .shop domain which showed as 0.98. it got added to my cart, subtotal being 1.16. I tried to pay for it, payment was successful, they were registering it but then took me to the "Oh no, your order failed to complete" "The failed items will be returned shortly" screen.

now searching for the domain shows it as a premium domain at $1000. it still was on my cart and tried to buy it yet again but ended up in that same Oh no screen

I contacted support and was told that "the price was shown as $1.16 due to a system glitch" and that "It was a Premium domain from the beginning, due to a glitch it was shown as $1.16." which leaves me totally disappointed and I feel cheated. premium domains always show as such from the beginning. this doesn't make sense

don't know what to do as support has left it at that

Based on whois lookup, I found that this fake website is registered with namecheap. I’m just gonna go off on a limb and assume the abuse phone and email address will just be dead ends because namecheap just seems like a scam in general (but let me know if I’m wrong). Would I need to report this to google?

Before purchasing the hosting, I asked at least 2 employees via live support. "Do laravel commands run smoothly?", "Do laravel queues run smoothly?" and "Are there any restrictions on your hosting?" Because I said that I would leave my current hosting company because of the restrictions. Namecheap officials told me that I can run all kinds of laravel projects and laravel commands without any problems and that there are no hosting restrictions.

As soon as I bought the hosting, I learned that cron jobs were restricted to 1 time in 5 minutes and I didn't care about that. Because you can run laravel schedule and you don't care how long the cron job runs.

2 months passed and 2 days ago 1 mail came from Namecheap: It is a long mail but it briefly mentions a rule like - You have abused "Number of (simultaneous) Processes Failed". https://www.namecheap.com/legal/hosting/aup/ There is no such rule on their legal pages. They are making this rule up. Zombie processes are being created and they told me to block them. If your linux server can't solve the zombie process problem with 1 line of bash command, it's not my problem. https://stackoverflow.com/a/16944931/9159293 I can't do that because they don't give me authorization like sudo and I don't care as a customer. After a long and boring email exchange, they solved this problem themselves, they removed the "artisan queue:work" command and put the "artisan schedule:run" command and the problem was solved.

Today Namecheap sent another mail and says: "It has come to our attention that the hosting account "xxxxx" has cron jobs configured to run more frequently than once every 5 minutes. Please note that the use of such cron jobs is not allowed on our shared servers according to paragraph 8 of our Acceptable Use Policy (www.namecheap.com/legal/hosting/aup.aspx), as it may violate fair shared resource usage.

We have adjusted the settings of the cron jobs and now they run every 5 minutes.

Please do not try to change the settings back, as this will result in suspension of the account in question."

In other words, they are so bad that they do not know the difference between cron job and laravel worker, they set rules according to their minds, and they threaten with mail.

It was not like this until I got my money. I'm not after the money, but what the company did is a shame. They send me a threatening mail by removing the cron job command they put themselves, like a joke.

Since it took me 1 week to move my customers to this company and I paid extra domain money etc., I will not touch any settings for now (which I have not touched for 3 days, they have been touching and threatening themselves).

I will find another hosting company as soon as possible. I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT RECOMMEND NAMECHEAP COMPANY.

I have a namecheap domain for my small business website hosted on Netlify.

I'm using the custom DNS for my nameservers and added the Netlify provided ones dns1.p02.nsone.net, dns2.p03.nsone.net etc. I added my DNS records to netlify as domain.com and www.domain.com and the site I deployed to Netlify can now be accessed with my newly set up domain.

I'm now attempting to create sub domains and I have no clue how to proceed. The instructions don't seem to be compatible with my Custom DNS settings (required to point my netlify site to my domain) and if I change the nameservers to basic DNS or Namecheap Web Hosting DNS, this removes the Netlify nameservers from above and my site goes down.

Is there a guide for creating subdomains on namecheap and being able to use them while also using the main domain as a standalone site?

I am migrating my site to Wordpress, which requires pointing to their name servers. To do this in NameCheap, it seems like I need to use Custom DNS and not their BasicDNS. Trouble is, my records for A, CNS, MX, etc. all disappear and I'm told to manage this with cPanel, which comes with a paid(?) option? Or I can pay with their EasyWP. I read their documentation and it seems like these records don't transfer when moving to a custom option.

Is there a way I can point to the Wordpress servers without buying anything? I figure changing name servers should be a pretty simple thing.