AAAA is a domain address record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the existing IPv4 system in which every single IP address comprises of 4 sets of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs which the current system supports and the speedy increase of products which 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'd like to direct a domain to a server which uses such an address, you will 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 very same function, yet different notations are used, in order to identify the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with our shared web hosting, will permit you to create a new AAAA record without difficulty. Once you are within the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you'll find all records that you have for every hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA then only type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain names, but it's unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to employ in comparison with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record will be functioning and your domain name shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. There is also an option to modify the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you change it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value the other company may require.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need to set up an AAAA record for a domain name you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've created, it will take you only a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel to accomplish this. Even though you may have never had a website hosting account before, you won't experience any difficulties as you will use a very simple and easy-to-use interface. All the DNS records for your domain addresses are going to be listed in a section of the Control Panel with the same name, so as soon as you go there, you will see all records that have been set up automatically or manually and you're going to be able to create a new one by clicking on the corresponding button. A small pop-up shall appear, so with only a few clicks you can select the type of record you require and for which domain or subdomain it's going to be created. Afterwards, simply paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the modification and an hour later the new AAAA record is going to be completely live. As an optional setting, you can select how long this record shall be active after you change it or remove it in the future. This is actually 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 requires it.