An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the newly released IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different sets of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the amount of IPs that could be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the website for it is located. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one company and your email messages with another, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party company and you need to set up an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with just a few clicks via the Hepsia CP, provided with 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 any domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you are able to modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is functioning after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.