An AAAA record is an IP within the freshly presented IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different sets of hexadecimal numbers, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 sets of digits 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 higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the site for it is. Depending on the system the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you need to set up a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it'll enable you to set up or change every single record effortlessly. Once you log in and visit the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domains and subdomains, you will only have to click on the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that'll appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the change - it's as basic as that. The new record will be fully functioning within a maximum of an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other company. When required, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which signifies the time in seconds that the new record will be live after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.