A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most common 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 website. Setting up this sort of a record serves as verification that you're the domain owner and they will supply the content that you need to include as the value when you create the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to verify that an e-mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable server - this is the so-called SPF security, that prevents any electronic address created under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send junk mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You may include any other information that you would like to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account and you need to create a TXT record for any purpose for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside it, you'll be able to accomplish this with just a few mouse clicks inside your Hepsia CP. The new record is going to be functioning right after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to verify that you're the owner of a particular web site within a few minutes. You can set up the TXT record through the DNS Records section of your CP in which you will also find all of the other records for your domain names. All you will need to do shall be to select the domain name or subdomain and the record type via drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to handle it, you may also check out our step-by-step guide, which you'll discover in the Help section of your account, or you can also contact our technical support to help you out with the creation of the new record.