A TXT record, as the abbreviation indicates, is a record, which contains data 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 like Yahoo, for instance, have different ways of verifying you are the owner of a particular domain and one of them is in fact by creating a TXT record with certain text which they provide and which you should use as the record value. The exact same verification method is used by some analytics platforms that keep track of the traffic to your websites as well. However, in this situation 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 activated the so-called SPF protection for your e-mails so that you can protect them from being forged. In such a case, the record contains info showing that a certain digital message is sent from a trusted and authorized mail server. You may use a TXT record for any type of other information as well, just like your company details, for instance.