An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly launched IPv6 format and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which include four sets of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the total number of IPs that could be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain name where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your site with one provider and your emails with another, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our cloud hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record without difficulty. When you're inside the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you will find all records you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA then only enter or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide in case you have never created records for your domain names, but it is not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to use in comparison with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record is going to be live and your domain name shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. Additionally, there is an option to change the TTL value, which shows how long this record will be working if you update it, from the default 3600 seconds to any value the other provider may require.