AAAA is a domain name record, that is basically the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which each IP is made up of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this modification is the considerably smaller number of unique IPs that the current system supports and also the quick increase of products 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 wish to direct a domain to a server which uses this kind of an address, you need to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records have the exact same function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two forms of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you use a service through a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to direct a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP, supplied with all our shared website hosting solutions. As soon as you log in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you are able to modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is live after you change it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in no more than an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a new AAAA record is very easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have created under it, you are going to be able to create it within a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses where you can find all current records or set up new ones with several clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to select the domain/subdomain you want to edit, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record will propagate worldwide and your Internet domain will start directing to the third-party web server. If they require it, you can also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record will be working with its current value before a new one kicks in if you make any adjustments in the future.