A TXT record, as the abbreviation implies, is a record, that keeps data in human-readable form and not code. It can be created for a domain name or a subdomain for various purposes. Search engines, for example, have different ways of confirming you are the owner of a particular domain and one of them is by creating a TXT record with unique text that they provide and that you need to use as the record value. The very same verification method is used by some analytics platforms that monitor the traffic to your web sites as well. Needless to say, in this situation the content of the record will be read by a robot, but it will still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is also used in case you activated the so-called SPF protection for your email addresses so that you can prevent them from being forged. In this situation, the record contains information showing that a given electronic message is sent from a dependable and authorized mail server. You may use a TXT record for any sort of other information as well, just like your business details, for instance.
