A TXT record, as the abbreviation suggests, is a record, that keeps information in human-readable form and not code. It may be created for a domain name or a subdomain for many different purposes. Search engines, for instance, have different ways of verifying you're the owner of a given domain and one of them is by creating a TXT record with unique text that they provide and that you should use as the record value. The very same verification method is used by some analytics platforms that keep track of the traffic to your web sites as well. Of course, in this situation the content of the record is going to be read by a robot, but it will still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is additionally used in case you enable the so-called SPF protection for your emails in order to prevent them from being forged. In this case, the record contains information showing that a certain electronic message is sent from a trusted and authorized mail server. You may use a TXT record for any kind of other information as well, like your company details, for example.
TXT Records in Hosting
If you need a TXT record for any purpose for an Internet domain or a subdomain hosted inside a hosting account on our innovative cloud platform, you will be able to set up one with ease even if you do not have previous experience with such matters. As our Hepsia CP is extremely intuitive, you'll employ a point & click user interface and you can set up the new record within a couple of seconds. This is achieved using the DNS Records section of Hepsia where you can handle all records for your domain names and creating a new TXT record involves choosing a domain or a subdomain and "TXT" from drop-down menus and typing the actual text inside a box - it is as simple as that. It takes only a few minutes for the new record to become active and to propagate, so if you need it to validate a website with some search engine, for example, you can ask them to check your site shortly after you have created the record and you should be all set.