An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the recently released IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 sets of digits in 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 number of IPs that can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system the provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use such a redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party service provider and you have to create an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with all of our cloud web hosting packages. As soon as you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an extra option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is going to be active after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in only an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you ought to set up an AAAA record for a domain name you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've set up, it'll take you just a few clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel to accomplish this. In case you have never had a web hosting account before, you'll not encounter any issues since you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All the DNS records for your domain names are going to be listed in a section of the Control Panel with the same name, so as soon as you go there, you'll see all records that have been created automatically or manually and you are going to be able to create a new one by clicking on the corresponding button. A small pop-up will appear, so with a couple of mouse clicks you can choose the type of record that you need and for which domain or subdomain it will be created. After that, just paste the IPv6 address within a text box, save the change and an hour later the new AAAA record will be 100% live. As an optional setting, you may choose how long this record shall be working after you modify it or erase it in the future. This is actually the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can change from the standard 3600 seconds if the other service provider requires it.