AAAA is a domain record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system where each Internet protocol address is made up of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs the present system supports and the rapid increase of products that are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to direct a domain to a machine that uses this sort of an address, you need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records provide the very same function, but different notations are used, in order to separate the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted in your hosting account, it will not take you more than a few simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or change any record with ease. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domain names and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record shall be fully functioning within only an hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If required, you are also going to be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a couple of really easy steps, which you will be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel as well. You will have to choose the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu where you will find all your domain names and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as simple as picking out the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can quickly forward any hostname to a different company by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It will take just a few seconds for the new record to be active and just around an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you will be done in no time. The other provider may also request you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.