AAAA is a domain record, that's in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system where every single IP is made up of 4 sets of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has eight sets of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the considerably smaller amount of unique IPs that the present system supports and the quick increase of gadgets that are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to forward a domain name to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the very same function, but different notations are used, to separate the two sorts of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you would like to set up a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted within your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or change any record easily. When you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all current records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that'll appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record will be 100% live within only 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a few very easy steps, that you will be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia hosting CP as well. You will have to pick the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find your domain addresses and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as basic as choosing the one that you need and entering the IPv6 address for it. This is accomplished with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can effortlessly direct any hostname to a different company by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It takes seconds for the new record to be active and only about an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you will be done in no time. The other provider can also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that is different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value that you set for your record to take effect while the old value is still active.