AAAA is a domain address record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was designed to replace the present IPv4 system in which each IP is comprised of four groups of decimal digits ranging from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. On the other hand, an IPv6 address includes eight sets of four hexadecimal digits - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this change is the significantly smaller selection of unique IPs which the present system supports as well as the quick increase of gadgets which are connected to the world wide web. A good example of an IPv6 address is 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you wish to forward a domain address to a machine that uses this kind of an address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it, not the widely used A record, that is an IPv4 address. Both records have the same exact function, yet different notations are used, in order to differentiate the two forms of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Hosting
If you are using a service through a third-party provider and you need to create an AAAA record to forward a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks through the Hepsia CP, included with all of our shared hosting solutions. As soon as you sign in, you will need to proceed to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Creating a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down options menu, that is to be AAAA in this case, and then typing the value, or the actual IPv6 address, inside a text box. As an additional option you can modify the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record is live after you edit it or erase it in the future. The new AAAA record will be working in just an hour and will propagate globally a few hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start pointing to the new hosting server.