AAAA is a domain address record, that's in essence the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system in which each IP is made up of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address features 8 groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs which the current system supports and also the fast increase of devices 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 point a domain name to a web server that uses this sort of an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records have the very same function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our web hosting, will allow you to create a new AAAA record with ease. When you are inside the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records you have for any hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA then simply type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domains, but it's not likely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record shall be active and your domain name will start resolving to the servers of the other company. There's also an option to edit the TTL value, which shows how long this record is going to be working if you update it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value which the other company may require.