AAAA is a domain record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system where each Internet protocol address is made up of four groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this change is the substantially smaller range of unique IPs the present system supports and also the quick increase of units that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to point a domain name to a server that uses this kind of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records have the same exact function, yet different notations are used, in order to separate the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you want to set up a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and is going to permit you to create or change every record without difficulty. As soon as you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll just have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up which will appear, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it is as basic as that. The new record is going to be 100% active within a maximum of one hour and the hostname you have created it for will 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 indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted within a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a few very simple steps, that you will be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well. You'll need to select the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu where you will find all your domains and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as simple as picking out the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can very easily forward any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It will take just a few seconds for the new record to be working and just about an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you will be done in no time. The other company could also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value that you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.