A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with a domain address as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides details about the traffic to your site. Creating such a record may serve as confirmation that you are the domain name owner and they will supply the content that you should include as the value when you set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to validate that an e-mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out junk e-mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could include any other info which you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.
TXT Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any reason for a domain or a subdomain hosted within it, you will be able to accomplish this with only a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia CP. The new record will be active immediately after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to verify that you are the owner of a given website in just minutes. You can create the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your Control Panel where you shall also find all of the other records for your domain names. All you will have to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain and also the record type via drop-down menus, enter the text content and save the change. If you're not sure what to do, you should also check out our step-by-step guide, which you could discover in the Help section of your account, or you can also contact our tech support to help you with the creation of the new record.