A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with a domain as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your website to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the targeted traffic to your site. Creating this type of a record functions as verification that you are the domain name owner and they will supply the content that you should include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to verify that an email message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF security, that prevents any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send out unsolicited mail making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You may include any other info that you'd like to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any purpose for a domain or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to do it with a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel. The new record will be functioning right after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to validate that you're the owner of a given website in a matter of minutes. You can create the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your CP in which you shall also find all other records for your domain names. All you will have to do shall be to select the domain name or subdomain as well as the record type via drop-down menus, enter the text content and save the change. If you are not sure how to handle it, you may also check out our step-by-step guide, which you could find in the Help section of your account, or you can also contact our technical support to aid you with the creation of the new record.