AAAA is a domain name record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which every single IP address is comprised of 4 sets of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address includes 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this transformation is the tremendously smaller range of unique IPs that the existing system supports and the quick increase of gadgets that are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain to a machine that uses such an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records have the same exact function, yet different notations are used, in order to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

The advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, bundled with our cloud hosting, will allow you to create a new AAAA record easily. When you are in the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that you have for any hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA after which only enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain addresses, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with in comparison with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain address shall start resolving to the servers of the other provider. In addition, there’s an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record will be working if you modify it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you have to create an AAAA record for a domain you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've created, it will take you only a few clicks inside the Hepsia CP to do that. Even though you may have never had a website hosting account before, you won't face any troubles because you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All of the DNS records for your domain names will be listed in a section of the CP with the exact same name, so once you go there, you will notice all records which have been created automatically or manually and you are going to be able to set up a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A little pop-up shall appear, so with just several clicks you can choose the type of record that you need and for which domain or subdomain it's going to be created. Then, simply paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the change and 1 hour later the new AAAA record will be 100% active. As an optional setting, you can choose how long this record will be active after you change it or delete it in the future. This is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the default 3600 seconds when the other provider demands it.