Every device that's connected to the world wide web has a unique identifier known as IP (Internet Protocol) address. This includes computer systems, web servers, smart phones, switches, etc. The pool of IP addresses, which was introduced at first, has been distributed, hence the so-called IPv4 IP addresses are slowly getting replaced with IPv6 addresses. Every domain name that opens an internet site has an IP record, that is the address of the server where it is hosted. With the IPv4 system, the record is called A and it is comprised of four groups of numbers from 1 to 255 divided with a dot, while with the IPv6 system it's called AAAA and it consists of eight groups of hexadecimal numbers i.e. this type of records use digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F. An example of an AAAA record is 2010:0c48:43d3:2142:1012:8c3a:2475:2435 and this format works with a significantly larger amount of IPs when compared with the IPv4 format.
AAAA Records in Website Hosting
If you'd like to use a domain name or a subdomain that you have inside a website hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you have to set up an AAAA record for that, it will not take you more than just a few clicks to do this via our powerful, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP. When you visit the DNS Records section and click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will show up. This is the place where you can set up any DNS record, so you simply have to select the needed domain address or subdomain and the type of record through drop-down options menu and enter the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. Just in case you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any problems as Hepsia is quite user-friendly and your new AAAA record will propagate within the hour, to enable you to start using your domain/subdomain with the other provider. In case they require it, you're also going to be able to change the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, determining how long it will remain active in the global DNS system after you modify it or delete it.