An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly released IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, that include four sets of digits in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this unique record tells the domain name where the website for it is. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your site with one company and your email messages with another, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted within your website hosting account, it won't take you more than several simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it'll permit you to set up or change every single record effortlessly. As soon as you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that'll appear, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% live within no more than one hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've set up under it, you will be able to create it in a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to do that is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to edit, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record is going to propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start pointing to the third-party hosting server. If they require it, you could also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record will be functioning with its existing value before a new one kicks in if you make any adjustments in the future.