An AAAA record is an IP address within the recently introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 different sets of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, that include four groups of digits in between 1 and 255. An example of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the total number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its website hosting server Internet protocol address as a record and in essence, this unique record instructs the domain where the site for it is located. Depending on the system the service provider uses, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your site with one company and your emails with a different one, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain address to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.
If you need to set up a new AAAA record a domain address or subdomain hosted in your shared website hosting account, it is not going to take you more than a couple of basic steps to do that. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is rather intuitive to use and it will permit you to create or modify any record without difficulty. After you sign in and visit the DNS Records section, where you'll discover all existing records for your domain names and subdomains, you'll simply have to click on the "New" button, choose AAAA from a small drop-down options menu in the pop-up which will appear, type or paste the needed IPv6 address and save the change - it is as basic as that. The new record is going to be fully working within no more than an hour and the hostname you have created it for will start opening whatever content you have with the other company. If necessary, you are also going to be able to edit the TTL (Time To Live) value, which reveals the time in seconds that the new record will be active after you eventually modify it to something different or you simply erase it.