AAAA is a domain record, that's essentially the IPv6 address of the server where the domain name is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the present IPv4 system where each and every Internet protocol address is made up of four groups of decimal numbers between 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In contrast, an IPv6 address has eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits - ranging from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The reason behind this modification is the significantly smaller number of unique IPs that the existing system supports and the quick increase of devices that are connected to the Internet. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you need to forward a domain address to a machine which uses this sort of an address, you need to create an AAAA record for it, and not the widespread A record, which is an IPv4 address. Both records deliver the exact same function, but different notations are used, to distinguish the two types of addresses.
AAAA Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you are using a service with a third-party company and you've got to create an AAAA record to point a domain name or a subdomain to their system, you'll be able to do that with a couple of mouse clicks through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our shared web hosting plans. After you sign in, you will need to navigate to the DNS Records section where you are going to find all records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account. Setting up a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type from a drop-down menu, that 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 could edit the TTL value (Time To Live), that specifies how long the record will be live after you modify it or remove it in the future. The new AAAA record will be live in just an hour and will propagate worldwide an hour or two later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new server.