A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain name as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most frequent use of a TXT record is to add your site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides information about the targeted traffic to your web site. Setting up this sort of a record functions as verification that you're the domain name owner and they will supply the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to validate that an email 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 set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized people to send junk mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other info you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Website Hosting

All it takes to create a new TXT record on our end is only a few clicks in the Hepsia web hosting CP, so if you employ a website hosting account from our company, you can create the record using a very user-friendly interface even though you may have never done such a thing before. As you log in to your Control Panel, you'll need to go to the DNS Records section through which you can handle all records relevant to your Internet domain names and subdomains, click the New button and in the pop-up that will show up, simply select the hostname and the type (TXT) from drop-down menus and enter the text that is required for the record. We also have a detailed Help article, but if you are not sure what you should do, our 24/7 technical support can assist you and set up the required record for you. The latter is going to be working within the hour, so if you're validating your web site, for example, you may ask the search engine to check your website again shortly after the record has been created.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Several clicks via drop-down menus is all it will take to create a new TXT record for any domain or subdomain that is hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company, so when you need this sort of a record for any reason, you won't encounter any problems even if you have zero previous experience with such matters. Any domain name which you have hosted or subdomain you have created in your account will be listed in the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP, so you can choose the one you need, choose TXT from a list of record types and enter the text that you would like to be associated with this record. Within no more than 1 hour the record shall propagate, so that you can use it for whatever purpose you require it. We also have an in depth Help article and a professional tech support team that's available 24/7 to help you with the creation of a new record or any questions you might have regarding it.