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 web site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the web traffic to your site. Creating this kind of a record functions as confirmation that you are the domain address owner and they will provide the content that you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to confirm that an email message is sent by the domain address owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF security, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send spam making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You can include any other information that you'd like to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia CP will allow you to control the DNS records of any domain address or subdomain accommodated within a cloud web hosting account effortlessly, so if you would like to set up a new TXT record for any one of them, it will not take you more than only a few seconds to do that. Using a rather user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll only have to pick one of your domain names or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select TXT for the type from a second menu, and type in the actual content inside a box. This is done within the DNS Records section of Hepsia and soon after you are ready, the new record is going to be functioning. If you wish to validate your web site with Google, for example, you'll just need to log in to your account with them several minutes later and ask them to check your Internet domain or subdomain. It doesn't take longer for a TXT record to go live if you require it for any other purpose.