Every single device that is connected to the Internet has a unique identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of IPs, which was introduced originally, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a website 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 groups of numbers from 1 to 255 separated with a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 is designed for a substantially bigger number of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you need to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with only a few clicks through the Hepsia CP, provided with all our shared website hosting packages. When you log in, you have to navigate to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, within a text box. As an added option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record is live after you edit it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.