An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the newly released IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that could be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain address where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system that the company employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your website with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use such a redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP, bundled with our shared website hosting, allows you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. When you're in the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will find all records you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, choose AAAA and then only input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain addresses, but it is not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to make use of compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain address will start resolving to the servers of the other company. Additionally, there is an option to modify the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you edit it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other company may require.