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  • Yes, after reading the comments I've found a manual on my registrar's site as well, stating the records should be entered without quotes (though I had them with quotes earlier and online validators marked them as valid so perhaps both ways worked in my case). I have switched to the recommended format of my registrar. Thanks all for the help! Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 0:03
  • Yes, Cloudflare also has a specific note about quotes support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/… Commented Jul 25, 2018 at 11:19
  • Where are finding this rule, "if a TXT value contains a space, it must be quoted with double quotes"? It sounds like a good rule, but whose rule is it? I cannot find anything about it in RFC 1464 or in the Wikipedia article you mentioned. (RFC 1464 mentions escaping internal double quotes, but that is different.) Commented Oct 23, 2019 at 16:19
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    Ah, as best I can tell this sort of escaping is is defined in RFC 1035 in Section 3.3 for the <character-string> production, and later in section 3.3.14 it specifies that TXT records have <character-string> as data and should therefore be quoted. (It also mentions this for HINFO records, whatever those are.) Commented Oct 23, 2019 at 16:30
  • Yes, RFC 1305 would seem to be the place where this is defined. If you edit the raw DNS zone in WHM you are actually prompted that "you must follow the quoting and escaping conventions described in RFC 1035". I'll update my answer, thanks. Commented Oct 23, 2019 at 16:57