A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that's associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most typical use of a TXT record is to add your site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers information about the traffic to your Internet site. Creating this sort of a record serves as proof that you are the domain owner and they'll supply the content that you should include as the value when you set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to verify that an e mail message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted web server - this is the so-called SPF security, that prevents any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized people to send out spam making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You may include any other info you want to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.