AAAA is a domain address record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the current IPv4 system in which each and every IP consists of four groups of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address features 8 sets of four hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs which the present system supports and the quick increase of products 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 direct a domain address to a web server that uses this sort of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records deliver the same exact function, but different notations are used, to separate the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or edit any record with ease. After you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be fully active within no more than an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you'll also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds the new record will be live after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

As our sophisticated cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you'll be able to create one with ease for every domain or subdomain which you host within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using the services of any other service provider you direct the domain/subdomain to right away. You can create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will also find all other records that were created automatically or you have set up manually before. The creation of the new AAAA record is as simple as choosing the needed domain or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, inputting the IPv6 address inside a text box and saving the modification. You're going to be able to modify the record at any time if required. Assuming the other company demands a certain TTL value for the new record, you will be able to edit this setting too. The Time To Live option outlines how long an existing record will keep functioning after you change it or erase it and the time is in seconds.