An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly released IPv6 format and it is made up of eight 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 with this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain where the website for it is. Depending on the system the company employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one provider and your email messages with another, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to point a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our shared website hosting, will permit you to create a new AAAA record effortlessly. Once you are inside the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA and then just type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domains, but it's unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of than compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be working and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other provider. Additionally, there is an option to edit the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you edit it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other service provider may require.