A TXT record, as the abbreviation indicates, is a record, that keeps info in human-readable form and not code. It may be created for a domain or a subdomain for many different purposes. Search engines, for instance, have different ways of making sure that you are the owner of a given domain name and one of them is by creating a TXT record with certain text that they provide and that you should use as the record value. The exact same verification method is employed by some analytics platforms that check the traffic to your Internet sites as well. However, in such a case the content of the record will be read by a robot, but it will still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is also employed if you enable the so-called SPF protection for your email addresses so that you can protect them from being forged. In this case, the record contains data showing that a particular digital message is sent from a dependable and authorized mail server. You may use a TXT record for any kind of other information also, just like your company details, for example.