An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly released IPv6 format and it consists of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the total number of IPs that can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server IP as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain address where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system that the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website 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 will need to set up an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Cloud Hosting

If you would like to create a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted within your cloud hosting account, it will not take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is rather intuitive to use and it will allow you to create or edit any record easily. Once you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all current records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will simply have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up that'll appear, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be fully active 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 company. If needed, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually change it to something different or you simply erase it.