AAAA is a domain record, which is essentially the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which every IP address is made up of 4 sets of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address features eight sets of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this modification is the tremendously smaller range of unique IPs that the existing system supports and also the speedy increase of products that are connected to the Internet. A good example 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 will need to create an AAAA record for it, not the widespread A record, that is an IPv4 address. Both records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you need to create an AAAA record to forward a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with only a couple of clicks through the Hepsia CP, which comes with all of our hosting packages. Once you sign in, you have to proceed to the DNS Records section where you will find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is live after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in just an hour and will propagate worldwide a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new hosting server.