DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to verify that an email message has been sent by an authenticated person or email server. An e-signature is attached to the email’s header using a private cryptographic key. When the email is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to validate who actually sent it and whether the content has been edited in some way. The fundamental purpose of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to impede the widespread spam and scam emails, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for example, but the signature does not match, you will either not get the message at all, or you’ll receive it with a warning that most likely it’s not genuine. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails the signature test. DKIM will also offer you an extra safety layer when you communicate with your business allies, for example, since they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you exchange are genuine and have not been meddled with in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

If you purchase any of the shared hosting that we offer, the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality will be enabled by default for any domain that you register under your website hosting account, so you will not need to set up any records or to enable anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private encryption key will be issued right away on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the global DNS system. All addresses created using this domain name will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send emails such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the receivers will be sure that they are legitimate, as the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to forge your addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you pick one of the semi-dedicated servers offered by our company, you’ll be able to use the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature with any domain that you register through your new semi-dedicated server account without any manual intervention, as our outstanding cloud hosting platform will set up all the mandatory records automatically, provided that the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is needed for a TXT record to be set up for the domain, as this is how the public encryption key can become available in the global Domain Name System. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so every time you send out a new email message, it will carry our system’s digital signature. The number of junk messages continues to increase each year and rather frequently spoofed email addresses are used, but if you use our web hosting services, you and your clients or partners won’t need to bother about that.