A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most frequent use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides details about the targeted traffic to your site. Creating this type of a record can serve as proof that you're the domain owner and they'll provide the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to confirm that an email message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF security, that helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send junk mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You may include any other information that you'd like to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting account and you would like to create a TXT record for any purpose for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in it, you will be able to do it with a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP. The new record is going to be active right after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to validate that you are the owner of a particular Internet site in just a few minutes. You can create the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your Control Panel where you shall also find all other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do shall be to select the domain name or subdomain and also the record type from drop-down menus, input the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to proceed, you may also check out our step-by-step guide, which you can discover in the Help section of your account, or you can contact our tech support to assist you with the creation of the new record.