AAAA is a domain record, which is in essence the IPv6 address of the web server in which the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was intended to replace the present IPv4 system where every IP comprises of four groups of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address features eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this modification is the considerably smaller number of unique IPs that the existing system supports and the rapid increase of gadgets which are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to point a domain name to a server which uses this type of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, and not the commonly used A record, that is an IPv4 address. The two records have the very same function, yet different notations are used, to identify the two sorts of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party provider and you need to create an AAAA record to direct a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, provided with all our shared web hosting packages. As soon as you log in, you have to go to the DNS Records section where you will find all of the records for any domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record will be live after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record will be operating in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world a couple of hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new server.