Every single device that is connected to the Internet has a unique identifier named IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, that was introduced originally, has already been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly being replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens a site has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. When using the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it consists of 4 sets of numbers from 1 to 255 divided using a dot, while within the IPv6 system it is called AAAA and it is made up of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this sort 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 can handle a significantly bigger amount of IPs compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Shared Website Hosting
The state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our shared website hosting, will permit you to set up a new AAAA record without difficulty. Once you are in the account and you navigate to the DNS Records section, you will discover all records you have for every hosted domain address or a subdomain under it. All it takes to set up the AAAA record is to click on the New Record button, to choose the domain/subdomain in question, select AAAA after which only type or copy and paste the IPv6 address. We've got a step-by-step guide if you've never created records for your domain names, but it is extremely unlikely that you will need it as Hepsia is much easier to work with than other Control Panels available. Within an hour your new record is going to be live and your domain address shall start resolving to the servers of the other company. There is also an option to modify the TTL value, which determines how long this record will be functioning if you change it, from the standard 3600 seconds to any value that the other company may require.