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 popular use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides information about the web traffic to your website. Creating such a record may serve as verification that you are the domain name owner and they'll supply the content you should include as the value when you create the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to validate that an email message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send out spam making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could add any other information which you want to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Website Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to manage the DNS records of every domain or subdomain accommodated in a shared website hosting account without trouble, so if you want to create a new TXT record for any of them, it won't take you more than only a few seconds to do it. Via a rather user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll simply have to choose one of your domain names or subdomains from a drop-down menu, pick out TXT for the type through a second menu, then type the actual content within a box. This is done within the DNS Records section of Hepsia and very soon after you are all set, the new record is going to be working. If you want to validate your site with Google, for example, you will just need to log in to your account with them several 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 need it for any other purpose.