An AAAA record is an IP address in the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain address where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system which the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one company and your e-mails with another, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you want to set up a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted in your cloud web hosting account, it won't take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and it'll enable you to set up or edit every single record easily. As soon as you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will simply have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as simple as that. The new record shall be fully functioning within only 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you will also be able to modify 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 remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is quite easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have created under it, you are going to be able to create it within a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all existing records or create new ones with several mouse clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to choose the domain/subdomain that you'd like to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate worldwide and your domain name will start pointing to the third-party hosting server. If they require it, you may also change the TTL value, which indicates the time this record is going to be working with its existing value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.