AAAA is a domain address record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system in which each and every IP comprises of 4 groups of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs that the present system supports and the quick increase of units that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain name to a machine which uses this kind of an address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records have the very same function, yet different notations are used, in order to identify the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In order to use a domain or a subdomain you have inside a cloud web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to create an AAAA record for that, it will not take you more than only a few clicks to do this through our effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP. When you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a little pop-up will show up. This is the place where you could set up any DNS record, so you just have to select the needed domain or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down menus and enter the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. If you happen to have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any troubles as Hepsia is extremely intuitive and your new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. Provided they require it, you're also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it will remain active in the global DNS system after you edit it or delete it.