Each device that is connected to the world wide web has a specific identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, which was introduced initially, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting 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. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of 4 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format can handle a significantly bigger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you are using a service through a third-party service provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with only a few clicks through the Hepsia CP, which comes with our shared web hosting packages. When you sign in, you have to visit the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an added option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that determines how long the record is active after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in just an hour and will propagate globally an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new web server.