DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to confirm that an email has been sent by an authorized person or server. An electronic signature is added to the header of the message using a private cryptographic key. When the email message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to confirm who exactly sent it and if its content has been edited in some way. The main purpose of DKIM is to hinder the widespread scam and spam messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If a message is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for instance, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not receive the email at all, or you’ll get it with a warning note that most likely it’s not authentic. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails to pass the signature examination. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also provide you with an added protection layer when you communicate with your business associates, for example, since they can see for themselves that all the e-mails that you exchange are genuine and haven’t been meddled with in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

If you purchase any of the Linux hosting services that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be enabled by default for any domain name that you register under your shard hosting account, so you won’t have to create any records or to enable anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX records (so that the email messages associated with this domain will be handled by our cloud platform), a private key will be generated momentarily on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the DNS system. All addresses set up with this domain will be protected by DKIM, so if you send out email messages such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the receivers will be sure that the messages are genuine, because the DKIM feature makes it impossible for unsolicited parties to forge your e-mail addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality comes by default with any domain name that’s added to a semi-dedicated server account with us. It should also use our name servers, so that its DNS records are managed by our platform. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT record to be created, which is in fact the public encryption key that verifies if a given message is legitimate or not. This record is set up when a brand-new domain name is registered in a semi-dedicated server account through the Hepsia Control Panel and in the meantime, a private key is created on our mail servers. If you use our web and email hosting services, your messages will always reach their target destination and you will not need to worry about unauthorized parties spoofing your addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something very important when you use emails to reach your business associates.