A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most frequent use of a TXT record is to add your website to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides info about the traffic to your web site. Creating this type of a record can serve as proof that you are the Internet domain owner and they will supply the content you need to 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 Internet domain owner and from a reliable web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that prevents any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send spam making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could add any other information you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.
TXT Records in Cloud Hosting
When you have a cloud hosting account and you need to create a TXT record for any purpose for an Internet domain or a subdomain hosted in it, you will be able to accomplish this with only a few mouse clicks inside your Hepsia CP. The new record will be active immediately after that, so a search engine, for example, can pick it up to verify that you are the owner of a given website in just 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 have to do shall be to select the domain or subdomain and the record type from drop-down menus, type the text content and save the change. If you're not sure what to do, you can even check our step-by-step guide, which you could discover in the Help section of your account, or you could also contact our tech support team to help you with the creation of the new record.
TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with all of our Linux semi-dedicated packages, allows you to create a new TXT record right away and with no issues. It is extremely user-friendly and includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so once you sign in and go there, you are able to choose the needed domain address or subdomain from a drop-down list, pick "TXT" as the type of the new record and enter the content that you'd like to be the actual text associated with the domain name. You'll find a comprehensive step-by-step guide in the Control Panel as well and the new record will be running soon after you create it, so if you need it for website validation, for example, just wait for a bit and then start the verification process with the Internet search engine in which you are adding your site. Should you have questions concerning the TXT records, our professional tech support team is going to be available 24/7 to help you.