AAAA is a domain name record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the existing IPv4 system in which every single Internet protocol address is comprised of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address features eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this modification is the substantially smaller selection of unique IPs which the existing system supports and also the fast increase of products which are connected to the Internet. An example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain address to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the same exact function, yet different notations are used, so as to distinguish the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you want to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and is going to allow you to set up or edit every record with ease. When you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as simple as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.