AAAA is a domain address record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which every IP consists of four groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address includes 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the considerably smaller range of unique IPs the existing system supports as well as the quick 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'd like to direct a domain to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the same exact function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside your website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and is going to allow you to create or edit every single record effortlessly. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that will appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as simple as that. The new record is going to be fully active within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for will 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 live after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a few simple steps, that you will be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting CP as well. You'll have to pick the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu where you will find all of your domain addresses and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as easy as selecting the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can very easily point any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be live and only about an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you will be done in no time. The other service provider can also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature outlines how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.