{"id":293,"date":"2019-05-17T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/?p=293"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:06:32","slug":"how-do-i-create-a-txt-record","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/kb\/how-do-i-create-a-txt-record\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I create a TXT record?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TXT records are often used to check whether you are the administrator of the domain name. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/kb\/create-spf-record-to-keep-your-e-mails-out-of-the-spam-filter\/\">SPF records<\/a> are added as txt record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow these steps in the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control panel<\/a> to set a TXT record:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Go to &#8220;My products&#8221;> &#8220;DNS &amp; forwarding management&#8221;> Click on the &#8220;<span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Manage DNS<\/span>&#8221; button to the right of your domain name.<\/li><li>Select \u201cTXT records\u201d in the menu on the left.<\/li><li>Click on the blue &#8220;+Add&#8221; button on the top right.<\/li><li>Under &#8220;TXT rules&#8221; enter the value of your TXT record and click on &#8220;Add a TXT record&#8221; (see image).<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21889\" style=\"width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2021-01-05-at-13.17.47-1.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li><li>The changes are activated. Remember that this can take up to 4 hours. You can check the active records via: <a href=\"http:\/\/who.is\/dns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/who.is\/dns\/<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\"><strong>Changes to your TXT records will only take effect after 1 to 4 hours<br><\/strong>The distribution time is usually 1 hour, but can go up to 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TXT records are often used to check whether you are the administrator of the domain name. Also SPF records are added as txt record. Follow these steps in the control panel to set a TXT record:&nbsp; Go to &#8220;My products&#8221;> &#8220;DNS &amp; forwarding management&#8221;> Click on the &#8220;Manage DNS&#8221; button&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[20,45],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3915,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/293\/revisions\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}