An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the recently introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different groups of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 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 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 Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record tells the domain address where the site for it is located. Depending on the system that the service provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your Internet site with one company and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

In order to use a domain name or a subdomain that you have inside a shared hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you ought to create an AAAA record for that, it will not take you more than a few clicks to do that by using our effective, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. When you visit the DNS Records section and click on the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will show up. This is the area where you could create any DNS record, so you simply have to pick the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down navigation and type in the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. If you happen to have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any difficulties as Hepsia is extremely intuitive and your new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. Provided they demand it, you are also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, defining how long it'll remain active in the global DNS system after you edit it or erase it.