A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with an Internet domain as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most popular use of a TXT record is to add your website to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, that provides info about the web traffic to your Internet site. Setting up this sort of a record works as proof that you're the domain address owner and they will supply the content you need to include as the value when you set up the record. Another use of a TXT record is to validate that an e-mail message is sent by the domain owner and from a trusted hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, that helps prevent any electronic address created under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized individuals to send junk e-mail making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could include any other information that you would like to be associated with your domain address in a TXT record as well.