AAAA is a domain name record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the existing IPv4 system where every IP address consists of 4 groups of decimal digits between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this transformation is the tremendously smaller amount of unique IPs that the present system supports as well as the quick increase of devices that are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to direct a domain address to a machine which uses such 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 2 records deliver the very same function, but different notations are used, to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud website hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and is going to allow you to set up or change any record without difficulty. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it's as easy as that. The new record will be 100% functioning within no more than an hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you'll also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.