AAAA Records

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Every single device that's connected to the world wide web has a unique identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computers, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, which was introduced initially, is already distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are gradually getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens an internet site has an IP record, which is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while with the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is comprised of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this kind of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a considerably larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you would like to set up a new AAAA record for any domain name or subdomain hosted within your shared website hosting account, it won't take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and is going to permit you to set up or modify any record without difficulty. As soon as you log in and visit the DNS Records section, where you can find all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, select AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up which will appear, input or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the modification - it's as basic as that. The new record is going to be fully active within a maximum of one hour and the hostname which you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you'll also be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds the new record will be working after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply erase it.