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, which provides info about the traffic to your web site. Setting up this kind of a record may serve as confirmation that you are the domain name owner and they'll supply the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another application of a TXT record is to validate that an e-mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable hosting server - this is the so-called SPF security, that 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 mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other info you want to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account and you would like to set up a TXT record for any reason for a domain or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to do it with just a few clicks inside the Hepsia CP. The new record will be working shortly after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to validate that you are the owner of a given website in just a few minutes. You can create the TXT record in the DNS Records section of your CP where you shall also find all other records for your domains. All you will need to do will be to choose the Internet domain or subdomain and the record type from drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you're not sure what to do, you can also check our step-by-step guide, which you'll find in the Help section of your account, or you can get in touch with our tech support team to assist you with the creation of the new record.