DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication system used to check that an e-mail has been sent by an authorized individual or email server. An electronic signature is attached to the header of the email by using a private encryption key. When the message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to verify who exactly sent it and whether the content has been altered in any way. The primary task of DKIM is to block the widely spread spam and scam emails, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If an email 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 get the email at all, or you’ll get it with a warning note that most likely it is not legitimate. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email message which fails to pass the signature check. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also give you an additional layer of protection when you communicate with your business allies, for instance, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you exchange are genuine and haven’t been manipulated on their way.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

If you buy one of the Linux hosting packages that we offer, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be activated by default for any domain that you add to your shared website hosting account, so you will not need to set up any records or to enable anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX resource records (so that the emails associated with this domain name will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private key will be generated straight away on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. All email addresses set up using this domain will be protected by DKIM, so if you send emails such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the recipients will know that they are genuine, as the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality makes it impossible for unauthorized people to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you pick one of the Linux semi-dedicated packages that we are offering, you will be able to use the DKIM feature with any domain that you add to your brand new semi-dedicated server account without any manual setup, as our leading-edge cloud hosting platform will create all the obligatory records automatically, as long as the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is needed for a TXT resource record to be created for the domain name, as this is how the public encryption key can become available in the global DNS database. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so anytime you send a new message, it will include our system’s digital signature. The number of unsolicited bulk emails keeps rising each year and quite frequently fake email addresses are used, but when you use our web hosting services, you and your clients or associates won’t need to bother about that.