An AAAA record is an IP address in the newly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the company uses, 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 emails with a different one, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to point 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 Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all our cloud web hosting packages. After you sign in, you need to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you will find all of the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an extra option you can change the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is going to be live after you change it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in only an hour and will propagate worldwide an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new server.