AAAA is a domain name record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system in which each Internet protocol address comprises of 4 groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address has 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this transformation is the considerably smaller selection of unique IPs that the current system supports and also the speedy increase of units that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to direct a domain name to a web server that uses this sort of an address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the exact same function, yet different notations are used, to separate the two forms of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you need to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted within your shared website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will enable you to set up or change every record without difficulty. After you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all current records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that'll show up, enter or paste the required 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 shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you'll also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply erase it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a few really easy steps, which you will be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel as well. You will have to select the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all of your domain addresses and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as simple as choosing the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than a few mouse clicks, so you can quickly forward any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be active and just around an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you'll be done in no time. The other service provider could also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, which is different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.