An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one provider and your emails with another, so if you decide to use such a redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted in your cloud hosting account, it will not take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and is going to allow you to create or change every record with ease. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all current records for your domains and subdomains, you'll just have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that'll appear, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record will be fully live within no more than one hour and the hostname that you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you are also going to 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 edit it to something different or you simply delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy with our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, 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 which you have 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 few mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to select the domain/subdomain you need to edit, select 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 change, the new record will propagate world-wide and your domain address will start pointing to the third-party server. If they need it, you may also edit the TTL value, which indicates the time this record shall be operating with its present value before a new one kicks in if you make any adjustments in the future.