AAAA is a domain name record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which each and every IP consists of four sets of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address includes eight sets of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs which the present system supports and also the fast increase of units that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain to a server that uses this kind of an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the same exact function, but different notations are used, so as to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you have to create an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with only a couple of clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with our shared website hosting solutions. When you sign in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all 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, 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 extra option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is live after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in only 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 web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our sophisticated cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one easily for any domain address 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 that you could start using the services of any other company you forward the domain/subdomain to in no time. You could create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will also find all the other records that were created automatically or you have created manually in the past. The creation of the new AAAA record is as easy as choosing the needed domain name or subdomain and the AAAA type via simple drop-down menus, inputting the IPv6 address in a text box and saving the change. You'll be able to edit the record anytime if necessary. If the other company needs a certain TTL value for the new record, you will be able to edit this setting also. The Time To Live option outlines how long an existing record will continue working after you edit it or remove it and the time is in seconds.