AAAA is a domain address record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system in which each and every IP is made up of 4 groups of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the considerably smaller selection of unique IPs which the current system supports and also the speedy increase of products which are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to point a domain name to a web server that uses such an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the exact same function, but different notations are used, so as to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you'd like to create a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your shared web hosting account, it will not take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it'll permit you to set up or change every record with ease. As soon as you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will simply have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as basic as that. The new record will be 100% live within no more than an hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a couple of very simple steps, which you'll be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well. You will need to select the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all of your domain addresses and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as easy as picking out the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can effortlessly direct any hostname to a different company by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they offer. It's going to take just a few seconds for the new record to be functioning and just about an hour for it to propagate around the globe, so you will be done in no time. The other company can also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that is different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.