A TXT record, as the abbreviation suggests, is a record, which keeps information in human-readable form and not code. It could be created for a domain address or a subdomain for various purposes. Search engines like Google, for instance, have different ways of making sure that you are the owner of a certain domain name and one of them is by creating a TXT record with certain text which they provide and that you should use as the record value. Exactly the same verification method is employed by some analytics platforms that keep track of the traffic to your Internet sites as well. Needless to say, in this case 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 also employed in case you enable the so-called SPF protection for your emails in order to prevent them from being forged. In this case, the record contains data showing that a particular electronic message is sent from a trusted and authorized mail server. You could use a TXT record for any other information also, like your business details, for example.