An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the freshly released IPv6 format and it consists of eight sets of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which feature four sets of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the sheer number of IPs that may be created is many times larger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each and every domain has its hosting server IP address as a record and in essence, this record informs the domain name where the website for it is located. Depending on the system that the company employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your Internet site with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you decide to use this type of redirection to point a domain to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will have to set up an AAAA record for it.