AAAA is a domain name record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system where each IP consists of four groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address includes eight sets of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this modification is the tremendously smaller selection of unique IPs which the current system supports as well as the speedy increase of products that are connected to the Internet. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain address to a web server which uses this type of an address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. Both records provide the same exact function, but different notations are used, to distinguish the two forms of addresses.
AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The state-of-the-art Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, bundled with our cloud website hosting, will enable you to set up a new AAAA record without difficulty. Once you are in the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records you have for every hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA and then simply enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain names, but it's less likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much simpler to work with compared with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record will be active and your domain name will start resolving to the servers of the other service provider. There is also an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record is going to be working if you update it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.