AAAA is a domain record, which is basically the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the existing IPv4 system where each and every IP address comprises of 4 sets of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs the present system supports and also the speedy increase of units that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain to a machine which uses this type of an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, in order to identify the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with our cloud web hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. Once you are in the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you'll find all records you have for any hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA and then only type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain addresses, but it's unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of than other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record shall be working and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other service provider. There is also an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be active if you edit it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other company may require.