An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly launched IPv6 format and it consists of eight different sets of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the total number of IPs that can be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain name has its hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain where the Internet site for it is. Depending on the system that the service provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your website with one company and your e-mails with another, so if you decide to use such a redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you use a service through a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all our shared web hosting plans. When you log in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an extra option you could change the TTL value (Time To Live), that outlines how long the record is going to be live after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start redirecting to the new server.