A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with a domain name as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides information about the targeted traffic to your web site. Setting up this type of a record can serve as proof that you're the domain address owner and they'll supply the content that you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another application of a TXT record is to validate that an e-mail message is sent by the Internet domain owner and from a reliable web server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send spam making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You can include any other information which you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.
