A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with a domain as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most typical use of a TXT record is to add your site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the web traffic to your Internet site. Setting up this type of a record can serve as verification that you are the domain name 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 confirm that an e-mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable web server - this is the so-called SPF security, that prevents any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized people to send out spam making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could include any other information you want to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Cloud Hosting

If you need a TXT record for any purpose for a domain address or a subdomain hosted within a cloud hosting account on our innovative cloud platform, you're going to be able to set up one with ease even though you may not have previous experience with such matters. As our Hepsia CP is really intuitive, you'll employ a point-and-click user interface and you can set up the new record in a couple of seconds. This is achieved using the DNS Records section of Hepsia in which you can control all records for your domains and setting up a new TXT record requires picking a domain or a subdomain and "TXT" from drop-down menus and inputting the actual text inside a box - it is as easy as that. It takes merely several minutes for the new record to become active and to propagate, so if you need it to verify web site with some search engine, for instance, you can ask them to check your site shortly after you have set up the record and you should be all set.