A TXT record, as the abbreviation indicates, is a record, which contains info in human-readable form and not code. It could be created for a domain address or a subdomain for a variety of purposes. Search engines like Google, for example, have different ways of making sure you're the owner of a given domain and one of them is actually by creating a TXT record with specific text which they provide and which you should use as the record value. The very same verification method is used by some analytics platforms that check the traffic to your sites as well. Needless to say, in this situation 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 additionally used if you activated the so-called SPF protection for your email addresses in order to protect them from being forged. In this case, the record contains data showing that a certain digital message is sent from a dependable and authorized mail server. You can use a TXT record for any type of other information also, like your business details, for instance.