AAAA is a domain name record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the existing IPv4 system in which every single IP address comprises of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this transformation is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs which the present system supports as well as the speedy increase of units which are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to point a domain address to a machine which uses this kind of an address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, in order to differentiate the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your cloud website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it'll allow you to create or edit any record effortlessly. After you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up which will appear, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record will be fully active within only 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you are also going to be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have set up under it, you're going to be able to create it in just a few simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names where you can find all current records or set up new ones with several mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to select the domain/subdomain that you would like to edit, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record is going to propagate globally and your domain will start pointing to the third-party server. If they need it, you could also edit the TTL value, which outlines the time this record is going to be active with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.