An AAAA record is an IP address within the recently presented IPv6 format and it is comprised of 8 different groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, that include four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs that can 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 as a record and in essence, that record instructs the domain name where the Internet site for it can be found. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your Internet site with one company 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 have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted inside your shared web hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will enable you to set up or change every single record without difficulty. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that will appear, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as basic as that. The new record shall be 100% live within only an hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain 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 created under it, you're going to be able to create it in a few quite simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all current records or create new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to choose the domain/subdomain that you'd like to change, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate world-wide and your domain name will start directing to the third-party web server. If they demand it, you can even edit the TTL value, which indicates the time this record will be operating with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any adjustments in the future.