Unable to request certificate on Apache / Namecheap domain

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My domain is:
otterliterature.online
I ran this command:
certbot --apache
It produced this output:
DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for www.otterliterature.online - check that a DNS record exists for this domain; DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up AAAA for www.otterliterature.online - check that a DNS record exists for this domain
My web server is (include version):
Apache/2.4.62 on a Debian machine
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Namecheap as registrar+DNS
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
yes
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 4.0.0

I only have one host record, an A record with host @ pointing to my apache server's IP. The error makes me think i'd need to fix my records somehow??

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Looks like you've fixed it already, right?

www.otterliterature.online. 1799 IN A 99.106.177.85

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seems like it, now the only issue is getting the page to load on https LOL

4

Port 443 seems to be blocked in one or more firewall(s) and/or has a missing NAT portmap, if applicable.

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thanks!!

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