A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with a domain name as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most typical use of a TXT record is to add your site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the targeted traffic to your site. Creating this sort of a record may serve as verification that you are the domain 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 e mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out spam making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could include any other info that you'd like to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Cloud Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia CP will enable you to manage the DNS records of every Internet domain or subdomain accommodated inside a cloud hosting account without trouble, so if you would want to create a new TXT record for any one of them, it will not take you more than a few seconds to do this. Via a rather user-friendly point-and-click interface, you will only have to select one of your domain names or subdomains from a drop-down options menu, select TXT for the type from a second menu, then input the actual content inside a box. This is done in the DNS Records section of Hepsia and shortly after you are ready, the new record will be active. If you want to confirm your web site with Google, for example, you will just have to log in to your account with them a few 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 need it for any other reason.