Probably because they wanted to keep them short. AAAA records are so named because it is the ipv6 equivalent of an A record, and ipv6 addresses are four times a

Probably because they wanted to keep them short. AAAA records are so named because it is the ipv6 equivalent of an A record, and ipv6 addresses are four times as long as ipv4 addresses. I agree it is pretty terrible though.