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 existing IPv4 system where each Internet protocol address comprises of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address features eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this change is the tremendously smaller range of unique IPs the present system supports as well as the fast 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 wish to direct a domain address to a machine that uses such an address, you need to create an AAAA record for it, not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the exact same function, yet different notations are used, to distinguish the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you want to use a domain address or a subdomain that you have in a hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to set up an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than just a few mouse clicks to do this via our effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. As soon as you visit the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will appear. This is the place where you can set up any DNS record, so you just have to pick the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down options menu and input the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. Even if you have zero experience with such matters, you'll not have any issues as Hepsia is quite intuitive and your new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. Provided they demand it, you'll also be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, outlining how long it's going to stay active in the global DNS system after you edit it or delete it.