What is exactly "host name"?

Hi there again everyone!
I am being asked to give my host name, it is part of a tutorial for making custom ftp-only accounts on OS X.
I was wondering, is it .. My computer's name?
Perhaps more info would be needed to understand my situation, so here is the link with the tutorial:
http://www.ldml.com/services/support/macosx/ftpUserCreate.html
I am at the "NAT?" section, to get around NATs problem, and it says:
Add the line "advertise all <host>" where <host> is either the host name or external IP address for the FTP server.
Since I have a dynamic IP adress, I though just putting my host name could work, but I wanted to be sure what it was exactly before going further.
If after all it's about domain name (?) or the adress, I've made up an account at DynDNS, and got an adress for my computer which is: nikkormat.kicks-***.net
I though maybe it was asking this adress?
Great thanks in advance for help! I am really stuck at this steps.. :P

Hope this helps.
Definition of: host name
The logical name assigned to a computer. On the Web, most hosts are named WWW; for example, www.mycompany.com. If a site is composed of several hosts, they might be given different names such as support.mycompany.com and sales.mycompany.com. SUPPORT and SALES are the host names, MYCOMPANY the subdomain name, and COM is the top-level domain name.

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