Just like with web hosting, email hosting is a service provided by a hosting or email company to manage custom domain-based email accounts. Most companies basically rent out space on an email server to customers, then handle email sending and receiving.

Our professional email is, however, more than just a storage space and delivery service. It’s a wide variety of integrations and collaboration features available to boost productivity and team effectiveness.

Email hosting company is usually defined by MX records that point incoming emails to a particular provider — who then processes those messages. In order to find the MX records, it’s necessary to perform an MX lookup. For example, if your email address is [email protected] you need to look up MX records for yourdomain.com.

Free online services such as MXtoolbox will give you a list of MX records that usually offer a provider’s name and corresponding IP addresses records. Sometimes, though, a domain can have a custom domain-based email MX record (e.g. mail.yourdomain.com). If that’s the case, you should also perform a Whois search on one of the IP addresses. That will give you the name of the email provider. Using free online services such as Network Tools is great for this.

It’s easy! Let’s see how to get your own email for your domain name with us, and how to make a business email address.

• First, you need to register a domain name. You can do this with any domain name registrar. But, if your domain is with Namecheap and you purchase an email plan, all your records will be automatically set up in most cases.
• If you registered your domain name somewhere else, it’s called a 3rd party domain name. But don’t worry. You can still enjoy an email plan with us and easily set this up in a few clicks. You’ll get the steps sent to you personally.

Once you have an email plan set up, [email protected] is ready to go! And did you know you can try Professional Business Email free for 60 days? Need more?  Here’s our full selection of email packages.

This is usually a question of setting up the right DNS records and activating your mailbox. Your email provider should give you the details you need. If you’ve already registered a domain name and purchased a business email with us. It’s simple to get started. You just need to follow our easy step-by-step guides to set up the right DNS records and then create your Private Email mailbox. Our 24/7 customer support is also ready to answer any questions.

With our hosted email service, you are renting high-quality email servers to manage the communications of your business. Some hosting providers offer free email hosting options with very few features and little to no support. Private Email from Namecheap is a premium email interface that gives you more flexibility and power. Professional web-based email takes place when both incoming and outgoing emails are managed by a cloud mail server, which is one of the reasons so many business owners choose Private Email. 

Our customers truly love that Private email is collaborative and cloud based. It provides a fresh interface that works across many devices – tablets, desktops, mobile and notebooks – letting users communicate whenever and wherever they want. Private Email has features for creating a public space in shared folders, creating and managing work schedules, and much more. Users can set and control tasks with ease. Everyone in your company can quickly view the availability of colleagues when planning meetings and breakouts. Admins love how easy it is to share data and control who has access to files. Learn more about the best features of Private Email.

Yes — we have plenty of videos that show the look and feel of the Private Email interface in our Knowledgebase videos section.

If you are using a third-party email service hosted elsewhere, and would like to switch to premium Private Email, you can easily migrate your old emails to our servers using the Webmail interface. Important messages from your Inbox, Drafts, Sent, and other folders can all be moved to your Namecheap new servers. Whether you are using Outlook, Thunderbird, MacMail, or a web-based email service, we provide helpful instructions to assist with the process.

Private Email supports TOTP methods of second-factor authentication, which is among the toughest technologies in the world today.

TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) is a standardized method that generates a changing temporary code that is unique each time, and expires as soon as the new one has been generated.

For more information about 2FA methods, and how to enable it for your business email, follow here.