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 typical use of a TXT record is to add your site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers details about the traffic to your website. Setting up such a record serves as proof that you are the domain address owner and they'll supply the content that you ought to include as the value when you set up the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to verify that an email message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted hosting server - this is the so-called SPF security, which helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send unsolicited 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 domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account and you need to create a TXT record for any purpose for an Internet domain or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to achieve that with only a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record will be working soon after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to confirm that you're the owner of a given web site in just minutes. You can create the TXT record in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel where you will also find all other records for your domains. All you will need to do will be to select the domain or subdomain and the record type through drop-down menus, enter the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to proceed, you should also check out our step-by-step guide, which you could discover in the Help section of your account, or you can get in touch with our technical support to assist you with the creation of the new record.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The custom-built Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to create a new TXT record very fast and with no complications. It's very user-friendly and comes with a section dedicated to the DNS records of your Internet domain names, so when you sign in and navigate to there, you are able to pick the required Internet domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, choose "TXT" as the type of your new record and type in the content that you'd like to be the actual text associated with the domain. You'll find a comprehensive step-by-step guide in the Control Panel also and the new record is going to be operating soon after you create it, so if you need it for Internet site validation, for instance, you can just wait for a bit and then start off the verification procedure with the search engine where you are adding your website. In case you have any questions about the TXT records, our seasoned tech support team shall be available 24/7 to help you.