A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your web site to a search engine or to an analytics platform, which offers info about the targeted traffic to your site. Creating this sort of a record serves as proof that you're the domain owner and they will provide the content that you should include as the value when you set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to verify that an email message is sent by the Internet domain owner and from a trusted web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which prevents any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out spam making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other info which you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account and you want to create a TXT record for any purpose for a domain or a subdomain hosted within it, you will be able to achieve that with a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record shall be working right after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to verify that you are the owner of a particular web site in just minutes. You can create the TXT record using the DNS Records section of your CP where you will also find all other records for your domain addresses. All you will need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain as well as the record type from drop-down menus, input the text content and save the change. If you're not sure how to proceed, you can even check out our step-by-step guide, which you could discover in the Help section of your account, or you can contact our tech support team to help you out with the creation of the new record.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

A new TXT record could be created easily and quickly when you employ a semi-dedicated server solution from our company because the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all the accounts, is incredibly user-friendly and it will enable you to create any record with a few clicks. All domain addresses and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you will just have to pick the one that you need, choose the record type, that will be TXT in this case, and enter or copy/paste the required text. It will not take more than one hour for your new record to be 100% functioning and to propagate worldwide. Even if you are not tech-savvy, you will not encounter issues to do this, but to be on the safe side, we have an in depth guide where you can find all the steps. Our support team will also be able to assist you 24/7 with any questions that you may have about the DNS records of your Internet domain names.