A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the traffic to your Internet site. Creating this sort of a record can serve as confirmation that you're the domain owner and they will provide the content that you need 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 reliable server - this is the so-called SPF security, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out unsolicited mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could include any other information which you want to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting account and you need to create a TXT record for any purpose for an Internet domain or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to do that with a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record will be functioning shortly after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to verify that you're the owner of a particular web site within a few minutes. You can create the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your Control Panel in which you will also find all the other records for your domain names. All you will have to do will be to select the Internet domain or subdomain as well as the record type through drop-down menus, input the text content and save the change. If you aren't sure how to handle it, you can also check out our step-by-step guide, which you could discover in the Help section of your account, or you can also get in touch with our technical support to aid you with the creation of the new record.