DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which obstructs email headers from being forged and email content from being tampered with. This is achieved by attaching a digital signature to each message sent from an email address under a given domain. The signature is generated based on a private encryption key that’s available on the outgoing SMTP mail server and it can be validated by using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any email with edited content or a forged sender can be spotted by mail service providers. This approach will strengthen your web safety considerably and you will be sure that any e-mail sent from a business partner, a banking institution, and so on, is authentic. When you send messages, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be phony may either be flagged as such or may never reach the receiver’s mailbox, based on how the particular provider has chosen to cope with such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you host a domain in a cloud web hosting account from us, all the mandatory records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be created by default. This will happen once you add the domain in , as long as it also uses our NS records. A private encryption key will be generated on our email servers, whereas a public key will be sent to the global Domain Name System automatically by using the TXT record. Thus, you won’t have to do anything manually and you’ll be able to make use of all the benefits of this email authentication system – your emails will be delivered to any destination without being disallowed and nobody will be able to send messages forging your email addresses. The latter is pretty important in case the nature of your Internet presence involves sending out regular newsletters or offers via email to potential and existing clients.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated servers come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so in case you choose a semi-dedicated hosting plan and you add a domain name using our name servers via your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the email authentication system will be set up automatically – a private encryption key on our email servers for the digital signature and a TXT resource record carrying the public key for the global DNS system. Since the DKIM protection is set up for a given domain name, all e-mail addresses created under it will carry a signature, so you will not need to worry that the email messages that you send may not be delivered to their destination address or that someone may forge any of your email addresses and try to spam/scam people. This may be quite important when you use email communication in your business, as your associates and/or customers will be able to distinguish real messages from forged ones.