An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly launched IPv6 format and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs that may be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the website for it is located. Depending on the system the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your website with one company and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted within your cloud website hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is very intuitive to use and it'll permit you to create or edit every record with ease. After you log in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that will show up, enter or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the change - it is as easy as that. The new record will be fully functioning within no more than an hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds the new record will be active after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a new AAAA record for a domain name or a subdomain hosted inside a semi-dedicated server from our company involves only a couple of simple steps, which you will be able to find in the Help section of your Hepsia hosting CP as well. You'll have to choose the hostname for which the new record will be created from a drop-down menu where you will find your domain names and subdomains. Setting up the new AAAA record is as simple as choosing the one that you need and typing in the IPv6 address for it. This is achieved with no more than a couple of mouse clicks, so you can very easily direct any hostname to a different provider by using an AAAA record and use it with whatever service they provide. It will take mere seconds for the new record to be working and only around an hour for it to propagate world-wide, so you will be done in no time. The other provider can also require you to set some TTL value for the AAAA record, that's different from the standard one - 3600 seconds. This feature determines how long it will take for any new value which you set for your record to take effect as the old value is still active.