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 other. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your web site to a search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the traffic to your website. Setting up this sort of a record serves as verification that you are the domain owner and they will supply the content that you should include as the value when you set up the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to validate that an e mail message is sent by the domain owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF security, that prevents any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out junk e-mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You can include any other info that you'd like to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any purpose for an Internet domain or a subdomain hosted in it, you'll be able to do it with a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record will be live right after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to verify that you are the owner of a particular website in a matter of minutes. You can create the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your Control Panel where you will also find all other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do shall be to choose the domain name or subdomain and the record type via drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you aren't sure what you should do, you may also check our step-by-step guide, which you will discover in the Help section of your account, or you can also get in touch with our technical support to aid you with the creation of the new record.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A new TXT record could be set up with ease if you use a semi-dedicated server solution from our company as the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all accounts, is really user-friendly and it will enable you to create any record with just a few mouse clicks. All Internet domain names and subdomains you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you'll only have to choose the one that you need, select the record type, that will be TXT in this case, and type or copy/paste the needed text. It won't take more than an hour for your new record to be entirely working and to propagate around the world. If you are not tech-savvy, you won't encounter complications to get this done, but to be on the safe side, we have an extensive guide in which you can find all the steps. Our technical support department will also be able to aid you 24/7 with any questions you might have concerning the DNS records of your domain names.