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 popular use of a TXT record is to add your website to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the targeted traffic to your web site. Creating this type of a record can serve as proof that you are the domain address owner and they will provide the content you should include as the value when you create the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to confirm that an e mail message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which prevents any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send out junk mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other information that you'd like to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Website Hosting

When you have a website hosting account and you would like to create a TXT record for any reason for a domain address or a subdomain hosted within it, you will be able to achieve that with only a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia CP. The new record shall be active immediately after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to confirm that you are the owner of a given web site in a matter of minutes. You can set up the TXT record through the DNS Records section of your CP where you will also find all the other records for your domains. All you will need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain as well as the record type via drop-down menus, enter the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to handle it, you could also check out our step-by-step guide, which you will discover in the Help section of your account, or you can also contact our tech support to assist you with the creation of the new record.