AAAA is a domain record, that is basically the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the present IPv4 system in which every IP address is comprised of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the considerably smaller number of unique IPs which the existing system supports and also the rapid increase of products that 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 want to forward a domain address to a server that uses this sort of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records have the very same function, yet different notations are used, so as to identify the two types of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you need to create a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud web hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and it'll permit you to set up or change every single record effortlessly. After you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that will appear, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% active within no more than 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply erase it.