A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most widespread 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 site. Setting up this type of a record functions as confirmation that you are the Internet domain owner and they'll provide the content that you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another application of a TXT record is to confirm that an e-mail message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted web server - this is the so-called SPF security, that helps prevent any electronic address set up 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 can include any other info you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.
TXT Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting account and you want to create a TXT record for any reason for a domain name or a subdomain hosted in it, you will be able to achieve that with a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia CP. The new record shall be working shortly after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to verify that you're the owner of a given website within a few minutes. You can set up the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your CP in which you shall also find all the other records for your domain names. All you will need to do will be to pick the Internet domain or subdomain and the record type from drop-down menus, enter the text content and save the change. If you aren't sure how to handle it, you can even check our step-by-step guide, which you can find in the Help section of your account, or you could also contact our tech support team to help you out with the creation of the new record.