A TXT record, as the abbreviation indicates, is a record, that contains info in human-readable form and not code. It may be created for a domain or a subdomain for a number of purposes. Search engines, for example, have different ways of verifying that you are the owner of a particular domain and one of them is in fact by creating a TXT record with unique text which they provide and that you must use as the record value. The exact same verification method is being employed by some analytics platforms that keep track of the traffic to your sites as well. Needless to say, in such a case the content of the record will be read by a robot, but it'll still be in human-readable form. A TXT record is furthermore employed if you enable the so-called SPF protection for your emails in order to prevent them from being forged. In this case, the record contains data showing that a given electronic message is sent from a trusted and authorized mail server. You could use a TXT record for any other information as well, like your company details, as an example.