AAAA is a domain name record, which is essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system where each and every IP address consists of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address features eight sets of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this modification is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs that the present system supports as well as the fast increase of products that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to point a domain address to a web server which uses this type of an address, you need to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the exact same function, but different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, included with all our website hosting solutions. As soon as you sign in, you will need to go to the DNS Records section where you will find all of the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is active after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in only an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our leading-edge cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you'll be able to create one effortlessly for every internet domain or subdomain you host within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, so you can start using the services of any other service provider you point the domain/subdomain to right away. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will also find all the other records that were created automatically or you have created manually previously. The creation of the new AAAA record is as easy as selecting the needed domain name or subdomain and the AAAA type through simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the change. You are going to be able to change the record anytime if necessary. If the other company requires a specific TTL value for the new record, you will be able to change this setting as well. The Time To Live option specifies how long an existing record will continue working after you edit it or erase it and the time is in seconds.