AAAA is a domain address record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system in which each IP address consists of 4 sets of decimal numbers which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this transformation is the substantially smaller selection of unique IPs that the current system supports as well as the speedy increase of gadgets that are connected to the Internet. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to forward a domain name to a web server which uses this type of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the very same function, but different notations are used, in order to differentiate the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you need to create an AAAA record to direct a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of our shared hosting solutions. Once you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all of the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is going to be functioning after you change it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in only an hour and will propagate around the world two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new server.