AAAA is a domain name record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system in which each and every IP address consists of 4 groups of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address has 8 groups of four hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs which the present system supports and also the speedy increase of devices that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to forward a domain address to a machine that uses this sort of an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records have the exact same function, yet different notations are used, to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you need to create a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted in your shared web hosting account, it won't take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll permit you to create or change every record easily. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record will be 100% working within a maximum of an hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply erase it.