AAAA is a domain address record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system in which every IP is comprised of 4 sets of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address features eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this transformation is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs the current system supports and also the speedy increase of units which are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to direct a domain to a web server that uses this type of an address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records have the very same function, yet different notations are used, so as to differentiate the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your shared website hosting account, it will not take you more than a few simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it will allow you to create or edit every single record effortlessly. After you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll just have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record shall be fully active within only 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply erase it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record is extremely easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain address inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have set up under it, you're going to be able to create it in a few very simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names where you can find all existing records or create new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to do this is to pick the domain/subdomain you need to edit, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record is going to propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party web server. If they demand it, you could also modify the TTL value, which indicates the time this record will be working with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any adjustments in the future.