An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the newly introduced IPv6 format and it comprises of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its web hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain name where the site for it is. Depending on the system which the provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your site with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

The cutting-edge Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, provided with our shared web hosting, will enable you to create a new AAAA record without difficulty. Once you are in the account and you go to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records that you have for every hosted domain or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA and then only type in or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We also have a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domains, but it is not likely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with compared with other Control Panels available on the market. Within an hour your new record will be working and your domain address will start resolving to the servers of the other company. There is also an option to change the TTL value, which determines how long this record will be working if you change it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other company may require.