A TXT record, as the abbreviation suggests, is a record, which holds information in human-readable form and not code. It could be created for a domain name or a subdomain for many different purposes. Search engines like Yahoo, for instance, have different ways of confirming you are the owner of a given domain name and one of them is in fact by creating a TXT record with unique text that they provide and which you will need to use as the record value. The same verification method is used by some analytics platforms that check 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 will still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is also employed in case you activated the so-called SPF protection for your emails so that you can prevent them from being forged. In this situation, the record contains info showing that a certain electronic message is sent from a reliable and authorized mail server. You can use a TXT record for any other information as well, such as your company details, for example.