Every single device that is connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, which was introduced originally, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens an internet 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 separated with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a substantially larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you'd like to use a domain address or a subdomain that you have within a shared web hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to set up an AAAA record for that, it won't take you more than a few mouse clicks to do this through our effective, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel. Once you navigate to the DNS Records section and click on the Create a New Record button, a compact pop-up will appear. This is the place where you could set up any DNS record, so you only have to choose the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record via drop-down navigation and input the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. In case you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any problems as Hepsia is quite user-friendly and the new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. In case they require it, you'll also be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it'll stay active in the global DNS system after you modify it or remove it.