A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain address as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most typical use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an online search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides details about the traffic to your website. Creating this kind of a record can serve as proof that you're the domain address owner and they'll supply the content that you ought to include as the value when you create the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to verify that an e-mail message is sent by the domain name owner and from a trusted server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain to be forged and unauthorized people to send unsolicited mail making it appear like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could add any other information which you want to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.