A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with a domain address as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides information about the targeted traffic to your website. Creating such a record may serve as verification that you are the Internet domain owner and they'll provide the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to verify that an e mail message is sent by the Internet domain owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send out junk mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You can include any other info that you'd like to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account and you want to create a TXT record for any reason for a domain address or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to accomplish this with just a few clicks in the Hepsia Control Panel. The new record shall be active shortly after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to confirm that you're the owner of a particular site in a matter of minutes. You can create the TXT record in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel where you shall also find all the other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do will be to select the Internet domain or subdomain and also the record type from drop-down menus, input the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to handle it, you could also check our step-by-step guide, which you'll discover in the Help section of your account, or you can also contact our technical support to assist you with the creation of the new record.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The custom-built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, included with all of our Linux semi-dedicated packages, allows you to create a new TXT record very quickly and without any complications. It is extremely user-friendly and has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so once you sign in and go there, you are able to pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, pick out "TXT" as the type of your new record and input the content which you want to be the actual text associated with the domain address. You will find an in depth step-by-step guide in the CP as well and the new record will be operational immediately after you create it, so if you want it for site validation, for example, just wait for a bit and then begin the verification procedure with the online search engine where you are adding your site. Should you have questions concerning the TXT records, our experienced tech support team will be available 24/7 to assist you.