An AAAA record is an IP in the newly introduced IPv6 format and it comprises of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers, unlike 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 in this format the 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 IP as a record and in essence, this record tells the domain where the site for it is. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one provider and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to forward a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you need to set up an AAAA record to direct a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a couple of clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud hosting solutions. Once you sign in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inputting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an additional option you are able to edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is active after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in just an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new hosting server.