AAAA is a domain name record, which is basically the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system where every IP address comprises of four groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. However, an IPv6 address includes eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The main reason for this transformation is the substantially smaller selection of unique IPs which the current system supports and also the speedy increase of products that are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you'd like to point a domain to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The 2 records provide the same exact function, but different notations are used, so as to separate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record is extremely easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've created under it, you'll be able to create it within a few quite simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all current records or create new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to do that is to select the domain/subdomain you want to modify, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record is going to propagate worldwide and your domain name will start directing to the third-party hosting server. If they require it, you can even change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be active with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.