A TXT record, as the abbreviation indicates, is a record, which keeps info in human-readable form and not code. It may be set up for a domain address or a subdomain for a variety of purposes. Search engines, for instance, have different ways of making sure that you are the owner of a certain domain name and one of them is in fact by creating a TXT record with unique text that they provide and which you must use as the record value. 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 will be read by a robot, but it'll still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is furthermore employed if you enable the so-called SPF protection for your emails in order to prevent them from being forged. In cases like this, the record contains data showing that a particular digital message is sent from a trusted and authorized mail server. You could use a TXT record for any sort of other information also, just like your company details, for instance.