AAAA is a domain address record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the existing IPv4 system in which each Internet protocol address consists of 4 sets of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has eight groups of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this transformation is the substantially smaller amount of unique IPs that the existing system supports as well as the speedy 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 need to direct a domain to a server that uses this kind of an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records deliver the same exact function, yet different notations are used, so as to separate the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party company and you have to create an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP, provided with all our cloud hosting plans. When you sign in, you will need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you will find all records for any domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an additional option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record will be active after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in just an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record is extremely easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have created under it, you're going to be able to create it within a few rather simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses where you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a couple of mouse clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to pick the domain/subdomain that you would like to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record will propagate globally and your domain name will start forwarding to the third-party web server. If they need it, you could also change the TTL value, which shows the time this record shall be working with its current value before a new one kicks in if you make any modifications in the future.