A TXT record, as the abbreviation implies, is a record, that contains information in human-readable form and not code. It may be created for a domain name or a subdomain for a variety of purposes. Search engines, for instance, have different ways of making sure you are the owner of a particular domain name and one of them is by creating a TXT record with specific text that they provide and which you should use as the record value. The exact same verification method is being employed by some analytics platforms that monitor the traffic to your sites as well. However, in this situation the content of the record will be read by a robot, but it'll still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is additionally employed in case you enable the so-called SPF protection for your emails so that you can prevent them from being forged. In this case, the record contains info showing that a certain electronic message is sent from a reliable and authorized mail server. You can use a TXT record for any type of other information as well, like your business details, for example.