An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly released IPv6 format and it is comprised of 8 different groups of hexadecimal numbers, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that could be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain name where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system the provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record will allow you to host your Internet site with one provider and your emails with another, so if you decide to use such a redirection to forward a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to set up an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you use a service through a third-party provider and you have to create an AAAA record to point a domain or a subdomain to their system, you're going to be able to do that with a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with our shared hosting packages. When you sign in, you need to navigate to the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all the records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type from a drop-down options menu, that 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), which outlines how long the record is active after you modify it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be functioning in only an hour and will propagate worldwide a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start directing to the new server.