diff --git a/providers/namedotcom/auditrecords.go b/providers/namedotcom/auditrecords.go
index 378a613b0..3fcbe6667 100644
--- a/providers/namedotcom/auditrecords.go
+++ b/providers/namedotcom/auditrecords.go
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package namedotcom
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
 	"github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/v3/models"
 	"github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol/v3/pkg/recordaudit"
 )
@@ -24,13 +26,24 @@ func AuditRecords(records []*models.RecordConfig) error {
 }
 
 // MaxLengthNDC returns and error if the sum of the strings
-// are longer than permitted by DigitalOcean. Sadly their
+// are longer than permitted by NDC. Sadly their
 // length limit is undocumented. This seems to work.
 func MaxLengthNDC(records []*models.RecordConfig) error {
 	for _, rc := range records {
 
 		if rc.HasFormatIdenticalToTXT() { // TXT and similar:
-			if len(rc.GetTargetField()) > 512 {
+			// Sum the length of the segments:
+			sum := 0
+			for _, segment := range rc.TxtStrings {
+				sum += len(segment)                // The length of each segment
+				sum += strings.Count(segment, `"`) // Add 1 for any char to be escaped
+			}
+			// Add the overhead of quoting them:
+			n := len(rc.TxtStrings)
+			if n > 0 {
+				sum += 2 + 3*(n-1) // Start and end double-quotes, plus `" "` between each segment.
+			}
+			if sum > 512 {
 				return fmt.Errorf("encoded txt too long")
 			}
 		}