AAAA is a domain address record, that's in essence the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system where every IP is made up of four sets of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address features eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this transformation is the considerably smaller range of unique IPs which the current system supports and also the rapid increase of gadgets that are connected to the Internet. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to point a domain address to a server that uses this kind of an address, you need to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records deliver the exact same function, yet different notations are used, to distinguish the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you have to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a couple of clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with all our shared website hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record will be functioning after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate globally a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web 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 inside 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 are going to be able to create it in just a few quite simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all current records or create new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to select the domain/subdomain you want to modify, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record will propagate worldwide and your Internet domain will start pointing to the third-party web server. If they require it, you may also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be working with its existing value before a new one kicks in if you make any changes in the future.