AAAA is a domain name record, which is basically the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system where every IP is made up of four groups of decimal numbers ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address includes 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this change is the significantly smaller selection of unique IPs that the present system supports as well as the rapid increase of gadgets which are connected to the Internet. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to direct a domain address to a machine which uses this type of an address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, but different notations are used, to distinguish the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

The cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel, bundled with our website hosting, allows you to create a new AAAA record with ease. Once you are inside the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will find all records that you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which only type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain addresses, but it's unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to employ than other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be live and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other service provider. In addition, there’s an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be functioning if you update it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value the other service provider may require.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have created under it, you'll be able to create it in just a few simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a couple of mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to select the domain/subdomain that you'd like to modify, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type 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 will propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party web server. If they demand it, you can also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record is going to be working with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.