An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it comprises of 8 different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the total number of IPs that can be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each 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 website for it can be found. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you need to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted in your shared website hosting account, it will not take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it will enable you to create or edit every record with ease. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as basic as that. The new record shall be 100% functioning within only one hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds which the new record will be working after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Creating a new AAAA record is extremely easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so if you host a domain address in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you want such a record either for it or for a subdomain which you have set up under it, you're going to be able to create it in a few rather simple steps and with no hassle. Hepsia features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains in which you can find all existing records or create new ones with a couple of mouse clicks. All it takes to achieve that is to select the domain/subdomain that you'd like to edit, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the newly created record is going to propagate world-wide and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they require it, you could also modify the TTL value, which reveals the time this record shall be operating with its current value before a new one takes over if you make any changes in the future.