A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with a domain address as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most common use of a TXT record is to add your website to a search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides information about the targeted traffic to your Internet site. Creating this sort of a record may serve as proof that you're the domain address owner and they'll supply the content that you need to include as the value when you create 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 trusted web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send junk mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You can include any other info you want to be associated with your domain in a TXT record as well.