An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the recently presented IPv6 format and it is made up 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 illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the amount of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the website for it is located. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your Internet site with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you'd like to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted in your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than several easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll permit you to create or change every record easily. As soon as you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domains and subdomains, you'll just have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will show up, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record shall be 100% working within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you will also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need to create an AAAA record for a domain you have hosted in it or a subdomain you have created, it is going to take you only a few clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel to do that. Even though you may have never had a hosting account before, you'll not encounter any troubles as 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 exact same name, so once you go there, you will see all records which have been set up automatically or manually and you'll be able to set up a new one by simply clicking the corresponding button. A compact pop-up will appear, so with just several mouse clicks you can select the type of record you require and for which domain name or subdomain it will be created. Then, just paste the IPv6 address within a text box, save the modification and one hour later the new AAAA record will be completely active. As an optional setting, you can select the time this record shall be operating after you modify it or remove it in the future. That's the so-called TTL, or Time To Live value of the record, which you can change from the default 3600 seconds when the other service provider demands it.