An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly released IPv6 format and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs which can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its web hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain name where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system which the company uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one company and your e-mails with another, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you want to use a domain name or a subdomain which you have in a shared web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to set up an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than a few clicks to do this via our amazing, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. When you visit the DNS Records section and then click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will appear. This is the area where you can create any DNS record, so you simply have to choose the needed domain name or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down navigation and input the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. Even if you have no experience with such matters, you will not have any troubles as Hepsia is very user-friendly and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other company. In case they require it, you're also going to be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it's going to remain active in the global DNS system after you modify it or erase it.
AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Creating a new AAAA record is very easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've set up under it, you are going to be able to create it in a few quite simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a couple of mouse clicks. All it takes to accomplish this is to choose the domain/subdomain that you would like to edit, pick AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and type the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address that the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the change, the new record will propagate world-wide and your domain address will start forwarding to the third-party hosting server. If they need it, you can even change the TTL value, which shows the time this record shall be active with its present value before a new one takes over if you make any modifications in the future.