Every single device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier referred to as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of IPs, which was introduced initially, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a considerably larger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you'd like to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted within your hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it will enable you to set up or modify any record with ease. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all current records for your domains and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will appear, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record shall be fully working within no more than one hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you have to set up an AAAA record for a domain address you have hosted in it or a subdomain you have set up, it is going to take you just a few clicks inside the Hepsia CP to achieve that. Even though you may have never had a hosting account before, you'll not encounter any issues as you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All the DNS records for your domain names are going to be listed in a section of the Control Panel with the same name, so once you go there, you will see all records that have been set up automatically or manually and you're going to be able to create a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A small pop-up shall appear, so with only a few mouse clicks you can choose the type of record you require and for which Internet domain or subdomain it's going to be created. Next, just paste the IPv6 address inside a text box, save the modification and one hour later the new AAAA record is going to be 100% active. As an optional setting, you can select the time this record is going to be working after you modify it or erase it in the future. That is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can change from the standard 3600 seconds in case the other service provider needs it.