Each device which is connected to the Internet has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, and so on. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced at first, has been distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens an internet site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use numbers 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 can handle a significantly larger amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you are using a service with a third-party service provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all of our shared hosting plans. Once you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an extra option you are able to edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record will be active after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.