An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the newly launched IPv6 format and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain address where the website for it is located. Depending on the system that the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your website with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party service provider and you've got to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with all of our web hosting packages. After you log in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as easy 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 extra option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record will be active after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you've got a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you have to set up an AAAA record for a domain you have hosted in it or a subdomain you've created, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks inside the Hepsia CP to accomplish this. Even though you may have never had a web hosting account before, you won't experience any troubles because you will use a very simple and intuitive interface. All the DNS records for your domains will be listed in a section of the Control Panel with the same name, so once you go there, you'll see all records which have been created automatically or manually and you're going to be able to set up a new one by simply clicking on the corresponding button. A small pop-up shall appear, so with several mouse clicks you can choose the type of record you require and for which Internet domain or subdomain it'll be created. Next, just paste the IPv6 address in a text box, save the change and one hour later the new AAAA record is going to be 100% live. As an optional setting, you can select the time this record shall be working after you edit it or erase it in the future. This is the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can modify from the standard 3600 seconds in case the other company demands it.