Every single device that's connected to the world wide web has a special identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IPs, which was introduced at first, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a website comes with an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind 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 can handle a substantially bigger number of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you wish to use a domain name or a subdomain which you have within a cloud website 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 a few mouse clicks to do this via our amazing, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP. Once you navigate to the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a little pop-up will appear. This is the spot where you can set up any DNS record, so you just have to choose the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down navigation and type in the IPv6 address, that’s the actual record. Just in case you have no experience with such matters, you won't have any issues as Hepsia is very intuitive and the new AAAA record is going to 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, determining how long it is going to remain active in the global DNS system after you change it or delete it.