AAAA Records

AAAA Records - find out more details about them and when will you need to use one.

Each device which is connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is made up of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided by 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 digits 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 larger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Hosting

If you'd like to use a domain or a subdomain that you have inside a hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to create an AAAA record for that, it is not going to take you more than just a few clicks to do this using our powerful, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. When you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will appear. This is the area in which you can create any DNS record, so you simply have to pick the needed domain or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down options menu and type in the IPv6 address, that’s the actual record. If you happen to have zero experience with such matters, you will not have any difficulties as Hepsia is quite user-friendly and your new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. In case they require it, you're also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, outlining how long it'll remain active in the global DNS system after you modify it or delete it.