An AAAA record is an IP within the newly launched IPv6 format and it consists of eight different groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record tells the domain name where the site for it is located. Depending on the system that the service provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you choose to use this sort of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Website Hosting

The advanced Hepsia web hosting CP, included with our website hosting, will permit you to create a new AAAA record without difficulty. When you are within the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records you have for any hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA and then just enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain names, but it is not likely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to employ than other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be active and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other company. There's also an option to change the TTL value, which outlines how long this record is going to be functioning if you update it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value that the other provider may require.