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 typical use of a TXT record is to add your website to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the targeted traffic to your site. Setting up this kind of a record may serve as confirmation that you are the domain address owner and they'll provide the content you should include as the value when you create the record. Another use of a TXT record is to verify that an e-mail message is sent by the domain name owner and from a reliable hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send out junk e-mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other information that you'd like to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Website Hosting

When you have a shared website hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any purpose for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside it, you will be able to accomplish this with a few mouse clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record will be working right after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to verify that you're the owner of a particular website in just a few minutes. You can set up the TXT record in the DNS Records section of your CP where you will also find all the other records for your domains. All you will have to do shall be to pick the domain or subdomain and the record type through drop-down menus, input the text content and save the change. If you aren't sure what to do, you can even check our step-by-step guide, which you can discover in the Help section of your account, or you could also contact our tech support team to assist you with the creation of the new record.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The custom-built Hepsia website hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, will permit you to set up a new TXT record in no time and without any troubles. It is quite user-friendly and includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so once you sign in and navigate to there, you could pick the required domain name or subdomain from a drop-down list, choose "TXT" as the type of the new record and input the content that you'd like to be the actual text associated with the domain address. You'll find a comprehensive step-by-step guide in the Control Panel as well and the new record is going to be working shortly after you create it, so if you want it for website validation, for example, just wait for a bit and then begin the verification procedure with the online search engine in which you are adding your site. Should you have questions regarding the TXT records, our knowledgeable tech support team will be available 24/7 to assist you.