A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your website to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the targeted traffic to your Internet site. Setting up such a record functions as proof that you're the domain owner and they'll supply the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to validate that an e mail message is sent by the domain owner and from a trusted hosting server - this is the so-called SPF security, that helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send unsolicited mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You can include any other info that you would like to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Website Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia CP will allow you to handle the DNS records of every domain name or subdomain accommodated within a shared website hosting account with ease, so if you would like to set up a new TXT record for any one of them, it won't take you more than only a few seconds to do that. Via a very user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll simply have to select one of your Internet domain names or subdomains from a drop-down options menu, pick out TXT for the type from a second menu, and then input the actual content within a box. This is done within the DNS Records section of Hepsia and very soon after you are done, the new record is going to be working. If you'd like to confirm your site with Google, for instance, you'll just need 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 more time for a TXT record to go live if you want it for any other reason.