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 another. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which offers details about the web traffic to your Internet site. Setting up this kind of a record can serve as verification that you're the domain address owner and they'll supply the content that you should include as the value when you set up 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 trusted server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out junk mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could add any other info which you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.
TXT Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting account and you would like to create a TXT record for any reason for a domain name or a subdomain hosted within it, you will be able to do it with just a few mouse clicks inside the Hepsia Control Panel. The new record shall be live right after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to confirm that you are the owner of a particular website within a few minutes. You can set up the TXT record using the DNS Records section of your Control Panel in which you shall also find all the other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do shall be to select the Internet domain or subdomain and also the record type through drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you aren't sure what you should do, you may also check our step-by-step guide, which you'll discover in the Help section of your account, or you could also get in touch with our tech support team to help you with the creation of the new record.
TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will enable you to create a new TXT record very quickly and with no problems. It is extremely user-friendly and includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your Internet domain names, so when you sign in and go there, you can pick the needed domain name or subdomain from a drop-down list, choose "TXT" as the type of your new record and enter the content that you would like to be the actual text associated with the domain address. You'll find a detailed step-by-step guide in the CP also and the new record is going to be operating soon after you create it, so if you want it for site verification, for instance, you can just wait for a bit and then commence the verification procedure with the search engine in which you are adding your site. In case you have any questions regarding the TXT records, our seasoned technical support team will be available 24/7 to assist you.