Each device which is connected to the Internet has a unique identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smart phones, switches, etcetera. The pool of IPs, that was introduced initially, is already distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are steadily being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain that opens a site comes with 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 comprises of four sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it comprises of 8 groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use digits 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 considerably bigger number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.

AAAA Records in Web Hosting

If you use a service through a third-party company and you need to create an AAAA record to point a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with a couple of clicks through the Hepsia CP, included with all of our web hosting packages. Once you sign in, you need to visit the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then entering the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an extra option you could modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which defines how long the record is going to be active after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be functioning in no more than an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new web server.