A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, that is associated with a domain as a DNS record for one purpose or other. The most widespread use of a TXT record is to add your site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which provides information about the targeted traffic to your Internet site. Creating this kind of a record works as verification that you're the domain address owner and they'll provide the content you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another purpose of a TXT record is to validate 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 people to send out junk e-mail making it look like it was sent from your own mailbox. You could include any other information that you would like to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.
