Each device which is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, that was introduced initially, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up using a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format is designed for a considerably greater amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with a couple of mouse clicks within the Hepsia CP, provided with our web hosting plans. When you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is functioning after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in only an hour and will propagate around the world two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record is quite easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name inside 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're going to be able to create it within a few simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains in which you can find all existing records or create new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to do that is to select the domain/subdomain that you'd like to modify, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record is going to propagate globally and your domain name will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they demand it, you could also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record is going to be active with its present value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.