An AAAA record is an IP in the newly released IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, that include four sets of numbers 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 number of IPs which can be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain name where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system that the provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use such a 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 Web Hosting

The advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our web hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. When you're inside the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA after which simply input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain names, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of than other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record will be active and your domain address shall start resolving to the servers of the other provider. There's also an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be active if you modify it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value that the other service provider may require.