DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication system used to prove that an e-mail has been sent by an authorized person or email server. An electronic signature is added to the header of the email using a private encryption key. When the email is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to verify who exactly sent it and whether its content has been modified in any way. The essential function of DKIM is to block the widely spread scam and spam emails, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If an email is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for instance, but the signature does not match, you will either not receive the message at all, or you will get it with a warning that most likely it’s not genuine. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails to pass the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also offer you an added security layer when you communicate with your business associates, for example, as they can see that all the e-mails that you exchange are legitimate and have not been meddled with on their way.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

If you order one of the shared hosting that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be activated as standard for any domain that you add to your shard hosting account, so you won’t need to set up any records or to do anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud web hosting platform), a private cryptographic key will be generated straight away on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the DNS database. All addresses set up using this domain will be protected by DKIM, so if you send email messages such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will know that they are genuine, since the DKIM option makes it impossible for unsolicited persons to forge your addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

All needed DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be created automatically by our cloud platform when you add a domain name as hosted in a semi-dedicated server account, so if you decide to purchase a semi-dedicated hosting package, you won’t need to configure anything to be able to use the email validation system. The domain name must use our name servers so that its DNS resource records can be managed by our company and provided that this condition is fulfilled, a private key will be created on our mail servers and a public key will be sent to the global Domain Name System by a special TXT record. All addresses that you create with the domain name will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, which will make it impossible for 3rd parties to spoof any email address. Both you and your colleagues or customers can take advantage of this feature, since it will guarantee a much higher security level for your electronic communication.