DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is a validation system, which obstructs email addresses from being forged and email content from being meddled with. This is done by adding an electronic signature to every email sent from an address under a certain domain name. The signature is published based on a private cryptographic key that’s available on the outgoing SMTP server and it can be validated by using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any message with edited content or a forged sender can be identified by email service providers. This approach will strengthen your online security significantly and you’ll be sure that any email sent from a business partner, a bank, and so on, is a legitimate one. When you send email messages, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that appears to be fake may either be marked as such or may never appear in the receiver’s mailbox, based on how the particular provider has chosen to handle such emails.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

If you obtain one of the Linux hosting plans that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled as standard for any domain that you add to your hosting account, so you won’t have to set up any records or to do anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS records (so that the emails associated with this domain will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private cryptographic key will be created straight away on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the global Domain Name System. All addresses created using this domain will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send emails such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the receivers will know that they are genuine, as the DomainKeys Identified Mail option makes it impossible for unsolicited people to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature comes by default with any domain name that is added to a semi-dedicated server account with our company. It should also use our name servers, so that its DNS records are handled by our platform. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT record to be set up, which is in fact the public cryptographic key that verifies if a particular message is authentic or not. This record is created when a brand new domain name is added to an account through the Hepsia Control Panel and at the same time, a private key is generated on our email servers. If you use our email and web hosting services, your emails will always reach their target viewers and you will not need to worry about unsolicited people spoofing your addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something very important in case you use email messages to touch base with your business allies.