AAAA is a domain address record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the current IPv4 system where every IP address is comprised of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features eight groups of 4 hexadecimal numbers - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this change is the considerably smaller selection of unique IPs that the current system supports and the fast increase of products which are connected to the world wide web. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to direct a domain name to a server that uses this sort of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the exact same function, but different notations are used, to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company involves only a few very easy steps, which you'll be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel as well. You'll have to select the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu where you will find your domain names and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as basic as picking out the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of clicks, so you can quickly point any hostname to a different company by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It will take just a few seconds for the new record to be working and just around an hour for it to propagate worldwide, so you'll be done in no time. The other provider could also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, which is different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.