An AAAA record is an IP address in the freshly launched IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 different sets of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 groups of numbers in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs that could be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its web hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record tells the domain name where the website for it is. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, 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 a different one, so if you decide to use such a 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 Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks via the Hepsia CP, included with all of our hosting plans. As soon as you sign in, you have to go to the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is going to be functioning after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be live in just an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.