AAAA is a domain address record, that's basically the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the current IPv4 system where each IP is made up of four sets of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address has eight sets of 4 hexadecimal digits - which range from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason for this transformation is the significantly smaller amount of unique IPs that the present system supports and also the speedy increase of gadgets that are connected to the world wide web. An example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to direct a domain name to a server that uses this type of an address, you have to create an AAAA record for it, not the commonly used A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records deliver the exact same function, but different notations are used, so as to separate the two types of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you've got to create an AAAA record to direct a domain address or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, which comes with all our shared web hosting plans. Once you log in, you need to visit the DNS Records section in which you are going to find all of the records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out 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 added option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), that defines how long the record is going to be active after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be active in just an hour and will propagate around the world a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new web server.