AAAA is a domain address record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the current IPv4 system in which each and every IP address consists of 4 sets of decimal numbers ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this change is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs that the present system supports as well as the quick increase of devices that are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to direct a domain address to a machine that uses such an address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the same exact function, but different notations are used, in order to identify the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you'd like to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or edit any record without difficulty. Once you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will appear, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record will be 100% functioning within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company involves only a couple of very simple steps, which you'll be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting CP as well. You will need to select the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all of your domain names and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as simple as selecting the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than a few clicks, so you can effortlessly point any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be live and just around an hour for it to propagate globally, so you'll be done in no time. The other provider can also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that is different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.