A TXT record, as the abbreviation indicates, is a record, which holds data in human-readable form and not code. It could be set up for a domain or a subdomain for a number of purposes. Search engines, for example, have different ways of confirming that you are the owner of a certain domain name and one of them is actually by creating a TXT record with specific text which they provide and that you will need to use as the record value. Exactly the same verification method is employed by some analytics platforms that monitor the traffic to your sites as well. However, in this situation the content of the record is going to be read by a robot, but it will still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is furthermore employed when you activated the so-called SPF protection for your e-mails so that you can protect them from being forged. In this situation, the record contains data showing that a certain electronic message is sent from a trusted and authorized mail server. You may use a TXT record for any kind of other information as well, such as your company details, for example.