An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly launched IPv6 format and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of numbers 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 total number of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its web hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system the provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted in your cloud hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or modify every single record effortlessly. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that will show up, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it is as simple as that. The new record shall be 100% active within only an hour and the hostname you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds which the new record will be functioning after you eventually change it to something different or you simply delete it.