An AAAA record is an IP in the newly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the amount of IPs that could be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain where the website for it is located. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your website with one provider and your emails with another, so if you decide to use such a redirection to point a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party provider and you have to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a couple of clicks via the Hepsia CP, which comes with all our cloud hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an added option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is going to be live after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in only an hour and will propagate around the world a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is very easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've created under it, you are going to be able to create it in just a few simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all current records or set up new ones with a couple of clicks. All it takes to do that is to pick the domain/subdomain you need to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record is going to propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start pointing to the third-party hosting server. If they demand it, you may also edit the TTL value, which outlines the time this record shall be active with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any modifications in the future.