A TXT record, as the abbreviation suggests, is a record, which keeps info in human-readable form and not code. It can be set up for a domain address or a subdomain for many different purposes. Search engines like Yahoo, for instance, have different ways of making sure you're the owner of a particular domain name and one of them is in fact by creating a TXT record with certain text that they provide and which you should use as the record value. Exactly the same verification method is being employed by some analytics platforms that monitor the traffic to your sites as well. Needless to say, in this case the content of the record is going to be read by a robot, but it'll still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is also used when you activated the so-called SPF protection for your emails in order to shield them from being forged. In such a case, the record contains information showing that a certain electronic message is sent from a dependable and authorized mail server. You could use a TXT record for any sort of other information as well, just like your company details, as an example.