A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's 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 site to a search engine or to an analytics platform, which offers info about the web traffic to your site. Setting up this sort of a record functions as verification that you are the domain name owner and they'll 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 name owner and from a reliable server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which prevents any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send out unsolicited mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could add any other information you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Website Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to manage the DNS records of every domain address or subdomain accommodated inside a shared website hosting account effortlessly, so if you would like to create a new TXT record for any one of them, it will not take you more than a few seconds to do that. Through a rather user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll only have to select one of your domain names or subdomains from a drop-down navigation, choose TXT for the type through a second menu, and then enter the actual content in a box. This is done in the DNS Records section of Hepsia and soon after you are ready, the new record will be functioning. If you would like to validate your website with Google, for example, you will simply have to log in to your account with them a couple of minutes later and ask them to check your domain or subdomain. It doesn't take more time for a TXT record to go live if you require it for any other reason.