An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different sets of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain address where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one provider and your e-mails with another, so if you decide to use this type 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 Shared Hosting

If you'd like to use a domain name or a subdomain which you have in a shared hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you ought to set up an AAAA record for that, it is not going to take you more than only a few clicks to do this by using our highly effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. As soon as you go to the DNS Records section and click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will show up. This is the place where you can create any DNS record, so you simply have to select the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down options menu and type in the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. Even if you have no experience with such matters, you will not have any issues as Hepsia is incredibly user-friendly and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. Provided they demand it, you'll also be able to edit the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it's going to stay active in the global DNS system after you change it or delete it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Creating a new AAAA record is quite easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain name 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're going to be able to create it in just a few simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses where you can find all existing records or create new ones with a couple of clicks. All it takes to do this is to choose the domain/subdomain that you'd like to modify, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and input the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other company has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate world-wide and your domain name will start pointing to the third-party web server. If they require it, you can even edit the TTL value, which indicates the time this record is going to be operating with its existing value before a new one kicks in if you make any modifications in the future.