An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the recently introduced IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include four sets of digits 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 sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record instructs the domain where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system that the provider 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 another, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party service provider and you need to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all our shared web hosting plans. After you log in, you need to proceed to the DNS Records section in which you will find all of the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an added option you can change the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record is functioning after you change it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.