AAAA is a domain record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the current IPv4 system in which each and every IP comprises of four groups of decimal numbers which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this transformation is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs that the current system supports and the speedy increase of products which are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain address to a machine which uses such an address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records provide the same exact function, yet different notations are used, in order to distinguish the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you want to use a domain name or a subdomain which you have within a shared website hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to create an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than just a few mouse clicks to do this via our effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP. When you navigate to the DNS Records section and click the Create a New Record button, a compact pop-up will show up. This is the place where you can set up any DNS record, so you just have to pick the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down options menu and enter the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. In case you have no experience with such matters, you will not have any problems as Hepsia is quite user-friendly and your new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. In case they require it, you'll also be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it'll stay active in the global DNS system after you change it or remove it.