A TXT record, as the abbreviation implies, is a record, which contains data in human-readable form and not code. It can be created for a domain address or a subdomain for many different purposes. Search engines, for example, have different ways of verifying you're the owner of a given domain name and one of them is by creating a TXT record with specific text which they provide and that you should use as the record value. The same verification method is being employed by some analytics platforms that keep track of the traffic to your websites as well. However, in such a 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 additionally employed when you activated the so-called SPF protection for your email addresses in order to prevent them from being forged. In this case, the record contains data showing that a given electronic message is sent from a reliable and authorized mail server. You could use a TXT record for any sort of other information also, just like your company details, for example.