An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly released IPv6 format and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration 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 larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain name where the website for it is located. Depending on the system that the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted within your shared web hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it'll enable you to set up or change every record easily. When you sign in and go to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that will appear, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within no more than an hour and the hostname that you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you'll also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain address within 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 will be able to create it within a few quite simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with several clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to pick the domain/subdomain you need to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record will propagate worldwide and your domain will start pointing to the third-party server. If they require it, you may also change the TTL value, which shows the time this record will be working with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any adjustments in the future.