DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to confirm that an e-mail has been sent by an authorized mail server or individual. An electronic signature is attached to the message’s header by using a private cryptographic key. When the email message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to confirm who actually sent it and whether the content has been altered in some way. The principal job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to block the widespread 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 will receive it with an alert that most probably it is not authentic. It depends on mail service providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails to pass the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also give you an additional layer of protection when you communicate with your business partners, for example, since they can see that all the emails that you exchange are authentic and haven’t been modified on their way.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

If you obtain any of the hosting that we’re offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled as standard for any domain name that you add to your hosting account, so you won’t need to set up any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX resource records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private encryption key will be generated straight away on our mail servers and a TXT record with a public key will be sent to the global DNS system. All addresses set up with this domain will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send out emails such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will be sure that the messages are legitimate, since the DKIM option makes it impossible for unauthorized individuals to spoof your e-mail addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option comes by default with any domain name that’s added to a semi-dedicated server account with us. The domain must also use our name servers, so that its DNS resource records are managed by our platform. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT resource record to be set up, which is actually the public encryption key that confirms if a given email message is genuine or not. Such a record is set up the moment a new domain name is registered in a semi-dedicated hosting account via the Hepsia Control Panel and at the same time, a private key is created on our mail servers. If you make use of our email and web hosting services, your email messages will always reach their target destination and you won’t have to worry about unauthorized people using your addresses for spamming or scamming purposes, which is something pretty important if you use emails to touch base with your business collaborators.