An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly launched IPv6 format and it consists of eight different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the number of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record instructs 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 enables you to host your site with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you want to use a domain or a subdomain that you have in a cloud 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 highly effective, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you go to the DNS Records section and click the Create a New Record button, a little 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 name or subdomain and the type of record via drop-down menus and type in the IPv6 address, which is the actual record. Even if you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any issues as Hepsia is quite intuitive and the new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. If they require it, you're also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it will stay active in the global DNS system after you edit it or erase it.