AAAA is a domain name record, which is basically the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system in which each IP address is made up of four groups of decimal numbers which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this transformation is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs the present system supports and the rapid increase of units which are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to direct a domain name to a web server that uses this type of an address, you need to set up 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 differentiate the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your shared website hosting account, it won't take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it will allow you to set up or change any record effortlessly. After you log in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as simple as that. The new record is going to be fully live within a maximum of an hour and the hostname which you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you are also going to be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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