AAAA is a domain name record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system where each IP is comprised 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 4 hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the substantially smaller number of unique IPs which the current system supports as well as the speedy increase of gadgets that are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to point a domain to a machine that uses this sort of an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records have the exact same function, but different notations are used, to distinguish the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or modify every single record effortlessly. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as simple as that. The new record shall be 100% live within no more than 1 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 shows the time in seconds which the new record will be live after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company includes a few simple steps, that you will be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well. You will need to pick the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all your domains and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as simple as selecting the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than a few mouse clicks, so you can effortlessly point any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they offer. It takes mere seconds for the new record to be live and only about an hour for it to propagate worldwide, so you will be done in no time. The other company may also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that is different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.