AAAA is a domain address record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the existing IPv4 system in which every single Internet protocol address is made up of four sets of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address features 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the considerably smaller number of unique IPs the existing system supports and also the rapid increase of products that are connected to the Internet. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain to a web server which uses such an address, you need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the same exact function, yet different notations are used, in order to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of our shared website hosting solutions. As soon as you sign in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record will be active after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in just an hour and will propagate around the world a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you ought to create an AAAA record for a domain name you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've created, it is going to take you only a few clicks inside the Hepsia CP to accomplish this. In case you have never had a web hosting account before, you won't encounter any troubles because you will use a very simple and user-friendly interface. All the DNS records for your domain addresses will be listed in a section of the Control Panel with the same name, so when you go there, you will notice all records which have been set up automatically or manually and you're going to be able to set up a new one by clicking on the corresponding button. A compact pop-up shall appear, so with just a couple of mouse clicks you can choose the type of record you need and for which Internet domain or subdomain it'll be created. After that, just paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the modification and an hour later the new AAAA record is going to be 100% live. As an optional setting, you may choose the length of time this record is going to be operating after you edit it or remove it in the future. That is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the standard 3600 seconds in case the other company requires it.