An AAAA record is an IP address in the newly presented IPv6 format and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 groups of digits between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record instructs the domain where the Internet site for it can be found. Depending on the system the company employs, the record will 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 choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted within your shared web hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and is going to enable you to set up or edit any record without difficulty. As soon as you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up which will show up, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% working within only 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is extremely easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, 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 a few simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all current records or set up new ones with several clicks. All it takes to do this is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to modify, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input 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 is going to propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party web server. If they need it, you can even edit the TTL value, which reveals the time this record is going to be active with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any modifications in the future.