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Namecheap BasicDNS
Migrate DNS to or from Namecheap BasicDNS, and switch nameservers at Namecheap BasicDNS as a registrar.
See how a domain's records would land at Namecheap. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- API user + API key, with our egress IP allow-listed
- Permissions
- API access enabled under Profile → Tools, with our static IP added to the allow-list.
What Namecheap supports
The same data the translation engine uses when it plans a migration.
- Create zones through the API
- List zones through the API
- Turn on DNSSEC through the API
- Apex CNAME (flattening)
- Apex ALIAS record
- Aliases to cloud resources
- CDN proxy on records
- Routing policies
- Minimum TTL
- 60s
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- CAA
- ALIAS
Namecheap-only records
- URL
- URL301
- FRAME
- MXE
These have no equivalent elsewhere and are flagged in every preview.
Good to know
- Namecheap's API replaces the whole host list on every write, so we always read, merge and then write.
- SRV records can't be managed through the API.
- URL redirect records are Namecheap-specific and aren't real DNS records.