A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most widespread 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 web traffic to your Internet site. Setting up this kind of a record may serve as confirmation that you are the domain address owner and they'll supply the content you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to confirm that an email message is sent by the Internet domain owner and from a reliable server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out spam making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could include any other information which you want to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Web Hosting

All it takes to create a new TXT record on our end is only a few clicks within the Hepsia web hosting CP, so if you employ a shared web hosting account from our company, you can create the record using a very user-friendly interface even when you have never done such a thing before. Once you sign in to your Control Panel, you'll need to go to the DNS Records section where you can control all of the records associated with your domains and subdomains, click the New button and in the pop-up that will appear, simply choose the hostname and the type (TXT) from drop-down menus and enter the text that you need for the record. We also have a detailed Help article, but if you are not sure how to handle it, our 24/7 technical support shall help you and create the necessary record for you. The latter shall be operating within the hour, so if you are verifying your website, for example, you could ask the search engine to check your website again right after the record has been created.