A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain address as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your web site to a search engine or to an analytics platform, which offers info about the traffic to your website. Setting up this type of a record may serve as confirmation that you're the Internet domain owner and they will provide the content that you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another application of a TXT record is to verify that an e-mail message is sent by the domain owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send spam making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other information which you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Website Hosting

Our custom Hepsia CP will permit you to control the DNS records of any Internet domain or subdomain accommodated in a website hosting account effortlessly, so if you would like to set up a new TXT record for any one of them, it will not take you more than only a few seconds to do this. Using a really user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll only have to choose one of your domain names or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose TXT for the type from a second menu, then type in the actual content inside a box. This is done within the DNS Records section of Hepsia and very soon after you are done, the new record is going to be functioning. If you would like to verify your web site with Google, for instance, you'll just have to log in to your account with them a couple of minutes later and ask them to check your Internet domain or subdomain. It doesn't take longer for a TXT record to go live if you require it for any other purpose.