DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which stops email addresses from being forged and email content from being manipulated. This is achieved by adding an electronic signature to each message sent from an address under a given domain. The signature is published based on a private encryption key that is available on the outgoing server and it can be verified by using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any email with modified content or a spoofed sender can be recognized by email providers. This technology will enhance your worldwide web security considerably and you’ll be sure that any message sent from a business partner, a bank, and so on, is genuine. When you send out emails, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be fraudulent may either be flagged as such or may never appear in the receiver’s inbox, depending on how the given provider has chosen to treat such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is enabled by default for all domain names that are hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud web hosting platform, so you won’t have to do anything on your end to enable it. The sole condition is that the particular domain should be hosted in a web hosting account on our end using our NS and MX resource records, so that the email messages will go through our mail servers. The private cryptographic key will be generated on the server and the TXT record, which contains the public key, will be published to the DNS database automatically, so you will not have to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this option. The DomainKeys Identified Mail email validation system will permit you to send trustable messages, so if you are sending offers or a newsletter to clients, for example, your emails will always reach their target viewers, whereas unauthorized 3rd parties will not be able to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated service come with DKIM activated by default, so in case you choose a semi-dedicated hosting plan and you add a domain using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records needed for the email validation system will be set up automatically – a private cryptographic key on our mail servers for the e-signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the global DNS system. As the protection is set up for a specific domain, all addresses created under it will carry a signature, so you won’t have to worry that the email messages that you send may not reach their target address or that somebody may forge any of your addresses and attempt to spam/scam people. This may be rather important when you use e-communication in your business, as your partners and/or clients will be able to distinguish genuine emails from forged ones.