DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to prove that an e-mail message has been sent by an authenticated individual or mail server. An electronic signature is attached to the email message’s header using a private encryption key. When the message is received, a public key that’s available in the global Domain Name System is used to check who actually sent it and whether its content has been edited in any way. The essential job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to impede the widely spread scam and spam emails, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If a message is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for example, but the signature does not match, you will either not get the email message at all, or you will receive it with a notification that most likely it’s not authentic. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails to pass the signature examination. DKIM will also provide you with an additional security layer when you communicate with your business associates, for example, as they can see that all the email messages that you exchange are genuine and have not been meddled with in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Web Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is pre-enabled for all domains that are hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our cloud servers, so you won’t need to do anything on your end to activate it. The sole condition is that the particular domain should be hosted in an account on our end using our NS and MX resource records, so that the e-mails will go through our email servers. The private encryption key will be generated on the server and the TXT resource record, which contains the public key, will be published to the Domain Name System automatically, so you will not have to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this option. The DomainKeys Identified Mail email authentication system will enable you to send trustworthy e-mails, so if you are sending a newsletter or offers to customers, for instance, your email messages will always reach their target audience, whereas unauthorized 3rd parties won’t be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated hosting come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so in case you choose this type of hosting and you add a domain using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the email validation system will be created automatically – a private cryptographic key on our mail servers for the e-signature and a TXT resource record carrying the public key for the global DNS system. Since the protection is set up for a specific domain, all e-mail addresses created using it will have a signature, so you will not need to worry that the messages that you send out may not reach their target email address or that someone may fake any of your addresses and try to spam/scam people. This may be very essential in case you rely on email communication in your business, as your colleagues and/or customers will be able to distinguish authentic email messages from false ones.