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 other. The most typical use of a TXT record is to add your site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the web traffic to your Internet site. Creating such a record serves as verification that you are the Internet domain owner and they'll supply the content that you ought to include as the value when you set up the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to confirm that an e mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a trusted hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized people to send out unsolicited mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You may include any other information which you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia CP will allow you to manage the DNS records of every domain name or subdomain accommodated within a shared hosting account without trouble, so if you want to create a new TXT record for any of them, it won't take you more than just a few seconds to do this. Using a really user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll simply have to choose one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down navigation, pick out TXT for the type from a second menu, and then enter 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 is going to be active. If you'd like to validate your site with Google, for instance, you will just have to log in to your account with them a few minutes later and ask them to check your Internet domain or subdomain. It does not take longer for a TXT record to go live if you want it for any other reason.