A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain name as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most widespread use of a TXT record is to add your site to a search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the traffic to your web site. Creating this sort of a record may serve as proof that you're the Internet domain owner and they will provide the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to validate that an e mail message is sent by the domain owner and from a reliable hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that prevents any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized people to send out junk e-mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You can include any other information you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Website Hosting

When you have a website hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any purpose for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to achieve that with just a few mouse clicks inside your Hepsia CP. The new record shall be live 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 in a matter of minutes. You can create the TXT record through the DNS Records section of your CP where you will also find all of the other records for your domain names. All you will have to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain and the record type via drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you're not sure what you should do, you should also check out our step-by-step guide, which you can find in the Help section of your account, or you can also get in touch with our tech support to aid you with the creation of the new record.