AAAA is a domain name record, that is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system in which every single IP consists of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address has 8 sets of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the considerably smaller selection of unique IPs the present system supports as well as the speedy increase of gadgets which 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 web server which uses this sort of an address, you need to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, to differentiate the two sorts of addresses.
AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting
If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your cloud hosting account, it won't take you more than a few easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and it will enable you to create or edit every single record easily. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that'll show up, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% live within only one hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.