A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most widespread use of a TXT record is to add your website to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which offers details about the targeted traffic to your website. Setting up this kind of a record may serve as verification that you are the Internet domain owner and they will provide the content that you ought to include as the value when you set up the record. Another application of a TXT record is to confirm that an e mail message is sent by the domain name owner and from a reliable web server - this is the so-called SPF security, that helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send junk mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You can include any other information you want to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.
TXT Records in Website Hosting
All it takes to set up a new TXT record on our end is simply a few mouse clicks inside the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, so if you employ a website hosting account from our company, you can create the record using a very user-friendly interface even if you have never done such a thing before. When you sign in to your Control Panel, you'll have to visit the DNS Records section through which you can manage all of the records relevant to your domains and subdomains, click on the New button and in the pop-up which will appear, simply pick the hostname and the type (TXT) from drop-down menus and type the text you need for the record. We also have a comprehensive Help article, but if you are not sure how to proceed, our 24/7 tech support team can assist you and create the needed record for you. The latter will be operating within the hour, in case you are validating your website, for example, you can ask the search engine to check your website again shortly after the record has been created.