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 other. The most frequent use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides info about the traffic to your website. Setting up this type 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 set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to confirm that an e-mail message is sent by the domain address owner and from a reliable hosting server - this is the so-called SPF security, that prevents any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send junk mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could include any other information that you would like to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Shared Hosting

When you have a shared hosting account and you want to set up a TXT record for any reason for a domain or a subdomain hosted inside it, you will be able to accomplish this with just a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. The new record shall be working immediately after that, so a search engine, for instance, can pick it up to verify that you are the owner of a given site in a matter of minutes. You can create the TXT record from the DNS Records section of your Control Panel where you shall also find all other records for your domains. All you will need to do shall be to pick the Internet domain or subdomain and the record type through drop-down menus, enter the text content and save the change. If you aren't sure how to handle it, you can also check our step-by-step guide, which you'll find in the Help section of your account, or you can contact our tech support to assist you with the creation of the new record.

TXT Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Several mouse clicks using drop-down menus is all it will take to set up a new TXT record for any domain name or subdomain that's hosted within a semi-dedicated server account from our company, so in case you need this kind of a record for any purpose, you'll not experience any difficulties even if you have no previous experience with such matters. Any Internet domain that you've hosted or subdomain that you have created in your account is going to be listed on the DNS Records section of your Hepsia CP, so you can choose the one you need, pick TXT from a list of record types and input the text you want to be associated with this record. Within a maximum of an hour the record is going to propagate, to enable you to use it for whatever purpose you want it. We've got a detailed Help article and also a seasoned tech support team that's available 24/7 to assist you with the creation of a new record or any questions you might have about it.