DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication system used to certify that an email message has been sent by an authorized individual or mail server. An electronic signature is attached to the email’s header using a private encryption key. When the email message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to check who exactly sent it and whether its content has been changed in some way. The prime job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to obstruct the widely spread spam and scam messages, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for instance, but the signature doesn’t match, you will either not get the email at all, or you’ll get it with a notification that most probably it’s not a legitimate one. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails to pass the signature check. DKIM will also supply you with an additional layer of protection when you communicate with your business associates, for instance, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you send are genuine and have not been tampered with in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Website Hosting

If you host a domain in a shared website hosting account with our company, all the obligatory records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be added by default. This will happen the moment you add the domain in the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, on the condition that the domain also uses our NS resource records. A private cryptographic key will be generated on our email servers, while a public key will be added to the global Domain Name System automatically by using the TXT record. Thus, you won’t need to do anything manually and you’ll be able to take full advantage of all the benefits of this validation system – your emails will be sent to any target audience without being discarded and no one will be able to send out messages faking your addresses. The latter is quite important in case the essence of your web presence suggests sending out periodic newsletters or offers via email to potential and existing clients.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you opt for any of the semi-dedicated servers that we are offering, you will be able to use the DKIM protection service with any domain that you add to your new semi-dedicated account without any manual setup, as our leading-edge cloud platform will create all the compulsory records automatically, as long as the domain name uses our name servers. The aforementioned is needed for a TXT resource record to be set up for the domain, since 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 mail servers, so every time you send out a new email, it will carry our platform’s electronic signature. The number of junk messages continues to increase every year and rather often false addresses are used, but when you make use of our hosting services, you and your customers or partners will not need to bother about that.