A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with an Internet domain 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 offers info about the traffic to your Internet site. Creating this sort of a record may serve as proof that you're the domain owner and they'll provide the content that you should include as the value when you create the record. Another application of a TXT record is to validate 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 set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send junk e-mail making it look like it was sent 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.