Every single device that is connected to the world wide web has a unique identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes personal computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced originally, has already been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name which opens a site has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. A good example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a substantially bigger number of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you will be able to do that with just a couple of clicks through the Hepsia CP, included with all our shared website hosting plans. After you sign in, you need to go to the DNS Records section where you will find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you are able to edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record will be functioning after you change it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in just an hour and will propagate globally two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.