AAAA is a domain address record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system where every IP consists of 4 groups of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this transformation is the substantially smaller number of unique IPs which the present system supports and also the rapid increase of units that 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 name to a web server that uses this sort of an address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the exact same function, yet different notations are used, in order to separate the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

The advanced Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with our shared website hosting, will enable you to create a new AAAA record with ease. When you're in the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records you have for every hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA then just enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain addresses, but it is not likely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be functioning and your domain shall start resolving to the servers of the other provider. In addition, there’s an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be functioning if you change it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value the other company may require.