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 other. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers information about the traffic to your web site. Setting up this kind of a record may serve as verification that you are the Internet domain owner and they'll provide the content that you need to include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to verify that an email message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that prevents any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out unsolicited mail making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You can include any other info that you'd like to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Hosting

When you have a shared hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any reason for a domain name or a subdomain hosted within it, you will be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks in the Hepsia CP. The new record shall be functioning soon after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to confirm that you are the owner of a given site in just minutes. You can set up the TXT record through the DNS Records section of your CP in which you will also find all the other records for your domains. All you will have to do shall be to pick the domain address or subdomain and also the record type from drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to handle it, you can even check out our step-by-step guide, which you will find in the Help section of your account, or you could also contact our tech support to help you out with the creation of the new record.