AAAA Records

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An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the newly launched IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs that can be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record instructs the domain where the website for it is. Depending on the system which the service provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record enables you to host your site with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use such a redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it is not going to take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or modify every single record without difficulty. Once you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will only have to click the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up which will show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as easy as that. The new record will be fully functioning within only one hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds which the new record will be functioning after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.