AAAA Records

Learn just what exactly an AAAA record is really, when it’s employed and if you ought to set up one for your domain.

An AAAA record is an IP within the recently launched IPv6 format and it consists of eight different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature four groups of digits in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that can be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain where the Internet site for it is located. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your website with one provider and your e-mails with another, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

The highly developed Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, provided with our shared hosting, will allow you to set up a new AAAA record without difficulty. When you are in the account and you visit the DNS Records section, you'll discover all records you have for every hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to create the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to pick the domain/subdomain in question, pick AAAA after which just type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We have a step-by-step guide if you have never created records for your domain names, but it is unlikely that you'll need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with than compared with other Control Panels on the market. Within an hour your new record is going to be active and your domain name shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. In addition, there’s an option to change the TTL value, which outlines how long this record is going to be active if you change it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value which the other service provider may require.