Each device that's connected to the world wide web has a distinctive identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, and so on. The pool of addresses, that was introduced at first, is already distributed, so the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it is hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 separated by a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort 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 works with a substantially larger number of IPs in comparison with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you want to create a new AAAA record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your shared web hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of simple steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is quite intuitive to use and it will allow you to set up or change every single record easily. After you sign in and navigate to the DNS Records section, in which you'll discover all existing records for your domain addresses and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down menu in the pop-up which will appear, input or paste the necessary IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% live within a maximum of an hour and the hostname that you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If needed, you will also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds the new record will be functioning after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.