AAAA is a domain address record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system in which every IP address is comprised of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the considerably smaller amount of unique IPs that the existing system supports as well as the speedy increase of products which are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to forward a domain name to a server which uses this sort of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, to distinguish the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared hosting plans. As soon as you log in, you have to go to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you are able to modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record will be active after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in no more than an hour and will propagate globally a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need to set up 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 in the Hepsia CP to achieve that. Even if you have never had a web hosting account before, you will not encounter any troubles since you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All DNS records for your domain addresses are going to be listed in a section of the CP with the exact same name, so when you go there, you will notice all records that have been created automatically or manually and you'll be able to create a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A little pop-up will appear, so with a few clicks you can choose the type of record you require and for which domain or subdomain it's going to be created. After that, simply paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the modification and 1 hour later the new AAAA record will be 100% live. As an optional setting, you can pick the length of time this record is going to be functioning after you modify it or delete it in the future. This is actually the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can change from the standard 3600 seconds in case the other provider requires it.