An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is comprised of 8 different sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that could be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its web hosting server IP as a record and in essence, that record instructs the domain address where the site for it is located. Depending on the system the provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your Internet site with one company and your email messages with another, so if you decide to use such a redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it will not take you more than a few simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will enable you to create or modify any record effortlessly. When you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all current records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll simply have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up which will appear, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it's as simple as that. The new record shall be fully active within no more than 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you will also be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds which the new record will be active after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in a semi-dedicated server from our company features only a few very simple steps, which you'll be able to find inside the Help section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel as well. You'll have to choose the hostname for which the new record is going to be created from a drop-down menu where you will find all of your domains and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as easy as choosing the one that you need and inputting the IPv6 address for it. This is done with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can quickly point any hostname to a different service provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they supply. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be active and only about an hour for it to propagate worldwide, so you will be done in no time. The other service provider may also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, which is different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature reveals how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.