AAAA is a domain record, that's essentially 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 every IP consists of four groups of decimal numbers ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of four hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this transformation is the tremendously smaller number of unique IPs that the current system supports as well as the quick increase of devices which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to forward a domain address to a machine which uses this sort of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the exact same function, but different notations are used, in order to identify the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you want to use a domain address or a subdomain you have inside a shared website hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you ought to create an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than only a few clicks to do this by using our highly effective, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP. As soon as you go to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a compact pop-up will show up. This is the spot in which you can create any DNS record, so you only have to choose the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down options menu and input the IPv6 address, that’s the actual record. Even if you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any troubles as Hepsia is incredibly intuitive and your new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, so you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. In case they demand it, you are also going to be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it will stay active in the global DNS system after you modify it or delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record is very easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've set up under it, you're going to be able to create it in a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with several mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to pick the domain/subdomain you want to edit, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record is going to propagate world-wide and your domain will start pointing to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you may also modify the TTL value, which reveals the time this record is going to be functioning with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.