An AAAA record is an IP address within the recently released IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include four sets of numbers between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the amount of IPs that could be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain address where the site for it is. Depending on the system the service provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website with one provider and your e-mails with another, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party provider and you have to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks within the Hepsia CP, included with all our cloud hosting packages. After you sign in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all of the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an additional option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which outlines how long the record is functioning after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be active in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.