An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly launched IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of digits between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain address where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system which the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your Internet site with one company and your email messages with another, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you want to set up a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted in your shared web hosting account, it will not take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and it will enable you to create or edit any record with ease. When you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domains and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that'll appear, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within a maximum of an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds which the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have set up under it, you'll be able to create it in just a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with several mouse clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to select the domain/subdomain you need to modify, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate world-wide and your domain will start forwarding to the third-party web server. If they require it, you could also change the TTL value, which reveals the time this record is going to be operating with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.