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 intended to replace the present IPv4 system in which every single Internet protocol address consists of four sets of decimal numbers ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the substantially smaller amount of unique IPs the existing system supports as well as the quick increase of devices which are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to point a domain address to a server which uses this kind of an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records have the same exact function, but different notations are used, to differentiate the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia web hosting CP, provided with our shared hosting, will permit you to set up a new AAAA record with ease. When you're inside the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records that you have for every hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA after which only enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain names, but it is extremely unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with than compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be functioning and your domain address shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. There is also an option to change the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be working if you modify it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value which the other service provider may require.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain 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 are going to be able to create it in a few very simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all current records or create new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to do this is to select the domain/subdomain you need to modify, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record is going to propagate globally and your Internet domain will start pointing to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you may also change the TTL value, which shows the time this record is going to be working with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any changes in the future.