An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address in the recently released IPv6 format and it consists of 8 different groups of hexadecimal numbers, unlike the IPv4 IPs, that include 4 groups of digits between 1 and 255. An illustration 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. Each and every domain name has its web hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, that record tells the domain address where the site for it can be found. Depending on the system which the provider uses, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record allows you to host your Internet site with one provider and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this kind of redirection to point a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you will need to set up an AAAA record for it.