AAAA Records

AAAA Records - learn more information about them and when should you use one.

An AAAA record is an IP in the newly launched IPv6 format and it is made up of eight different groups of hexadecimal digits, unlike 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 number of IPs that could be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every single domain has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the service provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your site with one company and your email messages with another, so if you choose to use such a redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted within your cloud web hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it'll enable you to set up or modify every record effortlessly. Once you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up which will appear, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as simple as that. The new record is going to be fully live within a maximum of 1 hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds which the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.