An AAAA record is an IP address in the newly launched IPv6 format and it consists of 8 different sets of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its website hosting server IP as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain name where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your Internet site with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain address 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 create a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside your website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and is going to allow you to create or change every single record easily. Once you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it is as basic as that. The new record will be fully active within no more than one hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually change 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 Control Panel, so if you host a domain name in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need 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 just a few rather simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains where you can find all current records or set up new ones with a couple of mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to pick the domain/subdomain that you'd like to modify, select AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the newly created record will propagate globally and your domain will start pointing to the third-party server. If they need it, you could also edit the TTL value, which shows the time this record is going to be functioning with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.