What does the AAAA in an AAAA record mean?

Question

What does the AAAA in an AAAA record mean? I am guessing it is for address:address:address:address but couldn't even find a mention of AAAA in the IPv6 specification. Please provide a source.

Answer 1

"In the standard DNS zone format you use AAAA records – or “quad-a”. A 32 bit IPv4 address is an A record. IPv6 is four times the size – 128 bits – so it ended up being a quad-A record."

Taken from: http://ipv6friday.org/blog/2012/01/ipv6-and-dn