An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers in 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 amount of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party service provider and you have to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with all our shared web hosting solutions. After you sign in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you are able to edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record will be live after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in only an hour and will propagate globally two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have created under it, you will be able to create it within a few very simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all existing records or create new ones with a few clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to pick the domain/subdomain you need to edit, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other service provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record is going to propagate globally and your Internet domain will start directing to the third-party server. If they demand it, you can also edit the TTL value, which reveals the time this record shall be active with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.