AAAA is a domain name record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system where each and every Internet protocol address is comprised of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes eight sets of 4 hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the considerably smaller number of unique IPs that the current system supports as well as the rapid increase of devices which are connected to the Internet. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to point a domain to a web server that uses this sort of an address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records deliver the exact same function, yet different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with our shared web hosting, will enable you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. Once you are inside the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you will find 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 choose the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA and then simply type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain addresses, but it is not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to employ in comparison with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record shall be live and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. In addition, there’s an option to edit the TTL value, which determines how long this record is going to be functioning if you edit it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value the other provider may require.