AAAA is a domain name record, which is essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the current IPv4 system in which each IP is comprised of 4 sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this change is the significantly smaller number of unique IPs the present system supports as well as the rapid increase of products which 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 direct a domain address to a web server which uses such an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records have the same exact function, but different notations are used, so as to identify the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you need to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with a couple of clicks via the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud web hosting plans. As soon as you sign in, you need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you can edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record will be live after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in only an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new hosting server.