An AAAA record is an IP address within the freshly introduced IPv6 format and it is made up of 8 groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include four groups of numbers in between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address would be 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and in this format the sheer number of IPs that may be created is many times higher than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Every domain name has its web hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain name where the website for it can be found. Depending on the system the service provider employs, the record is going to be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your website with one company and your email messages with another, so if you choose to use this type of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to create an AAAA record for it.