AAAA is a domain name record, that is basically the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system where each and every Internet protocol address is comprised of four sets of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs that the existing system supports and the quick increase of units that are connected to the Internet. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to forward a domain to a machine that uses this type of an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records provide the same exact function, but different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you need to create an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a couple of mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, supplied with our shared website hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an extra option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is going to be active after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in only an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our innovative cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you are going to be able to create one with no trouble for every domain name or subdomain that you host inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using the services of any other provider you direct the domain/subdomain to right away. You can create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting CP in which you will also find all the other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually previously. The set up of the new AAAA record is as easy as picking the needed Internet domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, entering the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the modification. You'll be able to change the record at any time if necessary. In case the other service provider needs a particular TTL value for the new record, you will be able to modify this setting also. The Time To Live option determines how long an existing record will continue functioning after you modify it or delete it and the time is in seconds.