Each device which is connected to the web has a distinctive identifier called IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes PCs, web servers, smartphones, switches, etc. The pool of addresses, which was introduced originally, has been distributed, therefore the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain which opens a website has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it's hosted. Using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while in the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it is made up of 8 sets of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort of records use numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An illustration of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a substantially greater number of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Web Hosting
If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain or subdomain hosted in your web hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a few basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is extremely intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or modify every single record with ease. After you log in and go to the DNS Records section, where you can find all current records for your domain names and subdomains, you will simply have to click the "New" button, pick out AAAA from a small drop-down menu inside the pop-up that will show up, input or paste the required IPv6 address and save the modification - it is as easy as that. The new record is going to be 100% working within a maximum of one hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other provider. If required, you are also going to be able to change the TTL (Time To Live) value, which indicates the time in seconds that the new record will be working after you eventually edit it to something different or you simply remove it.