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 another. The most frequent use of a TXT record is to add your website to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that offers info about the web traffic to your web site. Setting up such a record may serve as verification that you are the domain owner and they'll supply the content you should 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 Internet domain owner and from a trusted hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that prevents any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send unsolicited mail making it appear like it was sent from your own mailbox. You may include any other information which you want to be associated with your Internet domain in a TXT record as well.