An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the freshly released IPv6 format and it consists of eight different groups of hexadecimal digits, unlike the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, that record informs the domain where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system the provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one company and your e-mails with a different one, so if you decide to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll need to create an AAAA record for it.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you are using a service through a third-party company and you've got to set up an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks via the Hepsia CP, included with all of our shared hosting packages. After you log in, you will need to visit the DNS Records section in which you will find all the records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type from a drop-down menu, that will be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an additional option you could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), which specifies how long the record is going to be functioning after you edit it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in no more than an hour and will propagate worldwide a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.