AAAA is a domain record, which is essentially the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the present IPv4 system where every single Internet protocol address consists of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this transformation is the significantly smaller range of unique IPs the existing system supports and also the quick increase of units which are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain to a machine which uses this type of an address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, so as to separate the two forms of addresses.
AAAA Records in Website Hosting
The advanced Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with our website hosting, will enable you to set up a new AAAA record without difficulty. When you're within the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will find 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 select the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA and then simply type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain names, but it's extremely unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to make use of than compared with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record shall be active and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. There is also an option to edit the TTL value, which outlines how long this record will be working if you update it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value the other service provider may require.