An AAAA record is an IP in the recently released IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address would be 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, that record instructs the domain name where the website for it is located. Depending on the system which the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your website with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use such a redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted inside your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll allow you to set up or edit any record with ease. After you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that'll show up, enter or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record shall be fully working within only an hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If necessary, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you need such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you have set up under it, you are going to be able to create it within a few very simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names where you can find all current records or create new ones with several mouse clicks. All it takes to do this is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to edit, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address which the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record is going to propagate globally and your domain address will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they demand it, you can also change the TTL value, which reveals the time this record shall be operating with its existing value before a new one kicks in if you make any changes in the future.