DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication system used to check that an e-mail has been sent by an authorized email server or person. An e-signature is added to the header of the email by using a private cryptographic key. When the email is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to validate who actually sent it and whether the content has been edited in any way. The main function 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 an email is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for example, but the signature doesn’t match, you will either not get the email message at all, or you’ll get it with a warning note that most probably it is not legitimate. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email message which fails the signature check. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also supply you with an additional layer of protection when you communicate with your business associates, for instance, since they can see for themselves that all the messages that you exchange are genuine and have not been manipulated in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

When you get any of the hosting that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be activated as standard for any domain that you register under your shared account, so you won’t need to set up any records or to do anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS resource records (so that the email messages associated with this domain name will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private key will be generated straight away on our email servers and a TXT record with a public key will be sent to the global Domain Name System. All email addresses set up using this domain name 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 receivers will be sure that they are authentic, because the DKIM feature makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to forge your addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you pick one of the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the DomainKeys Identified Mail protection service with any domain name that you register through your brand-new semi-dedicated server account without any manual intervention, as our high-tech cloud web hosting platform will create all the necessary records automatically, on the condition that the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is required for a TXT resource record to be created for the domain name, since this is how the public cryptographic key can become available in the global DNS database. The private key will also be added automatically to our mail servers, so anytime you send out a new email, it will include our platform’s digital signature. The number of spam messages continues to grow each year and very often bogus email addresses are used, but if you make use of our web hosting services, you and your clients or partners will not have to bother about that.