An AAAA record is an IP address in the newly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 sets of hexadecimal digits, as opposed to the IPv4 IPs, which feature 4 sets of digits in between 1 and 255. A good example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs that could be created is many times greater than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system which the company uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one provider and your emails with a different one, so if you decide to use this kind of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you need to create a new AAAA record a domain name or subdomain hosted within your shared website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of easy steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia CP is quite intuitive to use and it'll permit you to create or change any record without difficulty. As soon as you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll only have to click on the "New" button, pick AAAA from a small drop-down options menu within the pop-up that'll appear, type or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as basic as that. The new record shall be fully live within only 1 hour and the hostname you have created it for shall start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If needed, you are also going to be able to modify the TTL (Time To Live) value, which shows the time in seconds which the new record will be functioning after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply delete it.