A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain address as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your website to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides info about the web traffic to your site. Setting up this sort of a record may serve as confirmation that you're the domain owner and they will provide the content you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to validate that an e mail message is sent by the Internet domain owner and from a reliable server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which prevents any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send junk e-mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You may include any other info which you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.
TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The custom-built Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to set up a new TXT record very quickly and without any difficulties. It is quite user-friendly and features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so once you sign in and navigate to there, you could pick the required domain address or subdomain from a drop-down list, choose "TXT" as the type of your new record and input the content you want to be the actual text associated with the domain name. You will find a comprehensive step-by-step guide inside the Control Panel as well and the new record shall be operational immediately after you create it, so if you need it for site verification, for example, you can just wait for a bit and then start off the verification procedure with the online search engine where you are adding your site. If you have questions concerning the TXT records, our seasoned tech support team shall be available 24/7 to help you.