AAAA is a domain record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the current IPv4 system where every IP is made up of 4 sets of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features eight groups of four hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this transformation is the considerably smaller amount of unique IPs which the current system supports and also the rapid increase of products which 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 forward a domain to a machine which uses this type of an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records have the very same function, but different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than a few simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will permit you to set up or edit every record easily. When you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll just have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will show up, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record will be 100% working within only 1 hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If required, you'll also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds which the new record will be working after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you've got a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you have to create an AAAA record for a domain address you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've set up, it is going to take you only a few clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel to do that. Even though you may have never had a web hosting account before, you'll not face any issues as you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All of the DNS records for your domain names are going to be listed in a section of the CP with the exact same name, so when you go there, you'll see all records which have been set up automatically or manually and you're going to be able to create a new one by simply clicking the corresponding button. A compact pop-up will appear, so with a few mouse clicks you can choose the type of record that you need and for which domain name or subdomain it will be set up. Next, simply paste the IPv6 address within a text box, save the change and one hour later the new AAAA record will be completely functioning. As an optional setting, you can choose how long this record is going to be operating after you change it or erase it in the future. That's the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the default 3600 seconds in case the other provider needs it.