AAAA is a domain address record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the existing IPv4 system where every IP is made up of 4 groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address has eight groups of four hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this modification is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs which the existing system supports and also the speedy increase of devices which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to forward a domain address to a machine which uses this sort of an address, you have to set up an AAAA record for it, and not the widely used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, to distinguish the two forms of addresses.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain address or subdomain hosted within your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than several basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it'll enable you to set up or change any record effortlessly. As soon as you log in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you will just have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down menu within the pop-up that will appear, enter or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be fully functioning within only an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. When required, you'll also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply delete it.