DNS TXT Records

The DNS ‘text’ (TXT) record lets a domain administrator enter text into the Domain Name System (DNS). The TXT record was originally intended as a place for human-readable notes.

However, now it is also possible to put some machine-readable data into TXT records. One domain can have many TXT records.

Example of a TXT record:

example.com	record type:	value:	TTL
@	TXT	This is an awesome domain! Definitely not spammy.	32600

Today, two of the most important uses for DNS TXT records are email spam prevention and domain ownership verification, although TXT records were not designed for these uses originally.