An AAAA record is an IP address within the newly released IPv6 format and it is made up of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 groups of numbers 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 greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain where the site for it is. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows 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 will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

The state-of-the-art Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with our shared website hosting, allows you to set up a new AAAA record effortlessly. When you are within the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will find all records that you have for every hosted domain name or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to select the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA and then just input or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain addresses, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to employ compared with other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record will be live and your domain will start resolving to the servers of the other company. In addition, there’s an option to modify the TTL value, which shows how long this record is going to be active if you modify it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other company may require.