An AAAA record is an IP within the recently released IPv6 format and it comprises of eight different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its web hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain address where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system that the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your Internet site with one provider and your emails with another, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you have to create an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with just a couple of clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with our web hosting solutions. As soon as you sign in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an additional option you can edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is active after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in only an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new hosting server.