Each device that's connected to the web has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are progressively getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a site comes with an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it comprises of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 split up by a dot, while in the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits 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 is designed for a significantly greater amount of IPs than the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you'd like to set up a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted within your shared hosting account, it won't take you more than several easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is very intuitive to use and it'll allow you to set up or change every record easily. After you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all present records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll simply have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up which will show up, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record will be fully functioning within no more than an hour and the hostname which you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you'll also be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds that the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply remove it.