An AAAA record is an IP address within the recently launched IPv6 format and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 groups of digits between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs that could be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind 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 Shared Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with our shared hosting plans. After you log in, you will need to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an extra option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is going to be functioning after you modify it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be operating in just an hour and will propagate globally two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new hosting server.