Every device that's connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type 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 Website Hosting

If you need to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted in your shared website hosting account, it will not take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it'll allow you to set up or change every record effortlessly. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all present records for your domains and subdomains, you'll simply have to click the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu inside the pop-up that will appear, type or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as simple as that. The new record shall be 100% live within no more than an hour and the hostname that you have created it for is going to start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds the new record will be live after you eventually change it to something different or you simply remove it.

AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a new AAAA record is incredibly easy using our user-friendly Hepsia hosting CP, so if you host a domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you require such a record either for it or for a subdomain that you've created under it, you will be able to create it within a few simple steps and without any hassle. Hepsia has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses in which you can find all existing records or set up new ones with a few mouse clicks. All it takes to do that is to select the domain/subdomain you want to change, choose AAAA for the type from a drop-down menu and enter the actual record i.e. the IPv6 address the other provider has given you. Within an hour after you save the modification, the new record will propagate globally and your Internet domain will start forwarding to the third-party server. If they require it, you can also edit the TTL value, which indicates the time this record is going to be operating with its current value before a new one kicks in if you make any modifications in the future.