An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the newly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which include 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 amount of IPs that may be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain name where the site 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 will allow you to host your website with one provider and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted in your website hosting account, it will not take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and it will allow you to create or change every single record without difficulty. When you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domains and subdomains, you will simply have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record shall be fully working within no more than one hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply erase it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Creating a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company includes only a couple of very simple steps, which you'll be able to find within the Help section of your Hepsia hosting CP as well. You'll need to select the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu in which you will find all your domains and subdomains. Creating the new AAAA record is as simple as selecting the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than several clicks, so you can quickly point any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It's going to take just a few seconds for the new record to be active and only about an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you'll be done in no time. The other provider may also ask you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the default one - 3600 seconds. This feature shows how long it will take for any new value that you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.