A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with a domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most typical use of a TXT record is to add your site to a search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the web traffic to your web site. Creating this type of a record serves as proof that you're the domain owner and they'll supply the content that you should include as the value when you set up the record. Another application of a TXT record is to verify that an email message is sent by the domain owner and from a reliable web 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 junk e-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 Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account and you would like to set up a TXT record for any purpose for an Internet domain or a subdomain hosted inside it, you'll be able to accomplish this with just a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record is going to be active right after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to confirm that you're the owner of a given Internet site within a few minutes. You can set up the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your Control Panel in which you will also find all of the other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain as well as the record type through 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'll discover in the Help section of your account, or you can get in touch with our technical support to assist you with the creation of the new record.