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 frequent use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the web traffic to your web site. Creating such a record works as confirmation that you're the domain name owner and they'll provide the content that you should include as the value when you create the record. Another application of a TXT record is to confirm that an e-mail message is sent by the domain owner and from a trusted hosting 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 out junk mail making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You may include any other information that you would like to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account and you would like to create a TXT record for any purpose for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to accomplish this with only a few mouse clicks inside the Hepsia Control Panel. The new record is going to be live soon after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to verify that you are the owner of a particular Internet site in a matter of minutes. You can set up the TXT record using the DNS Records section of your CP where you will also find all other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do shall be to pick the domain address or subdomain and also the record type through drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you are not sure how to handle it, you may also check our step-by-step guide, which you will discover in the Help section of your account, or you can get in touch with our technical support to help you out with the creation of the new record.