An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly released IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include four sets of digits 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 total number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain name where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you'd like to use a domain or a subdomain which you have inside a shared web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you need to set up an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than just a few mouse clicks to do that using our effective, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you go to the DNS Records section and click on the Create a New Record button, a compact pop-up will appear. This is the place in which you can create any DNS record, so you just have to pick the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record via drop-down options menu and type in the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. In case you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any issues as Hepsia is quite intuitive and your new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. If they require it, you're also going to be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it is going to stay active in the global DNS system after you edit it or erase it.