DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to confirm that an email message has been sent by an authenticated server or person. A digital signature is added to the email message’s header using a private key. When the email is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to verify who exactly sent it and if its content has been modified in any way. The prime job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to impede the widely spread spam and scam messages, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email message is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for example, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not receive the email message at all, or you will get it with a warning alert that most probably it is not a legitimate one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email message which fails to pass the signature examination. DKIM will also supply you with an extra safety layer when you communicate with your business partners, for instance, since they can see that all the email messages that you exchange are legitimate and have not been meddled with in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Web Hosting

If you purchase any of the web hosting that we’re offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled by default for any domain that you add to your website hosting account, so you won’t need to create any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud platform), a private key will be issued straight away on our mail servers and a TXT 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 out emails such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will know that the messages are genuine, as the DKIM option makes it impossible for unauthorized individuals to forge your e-mail addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is included 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 resource records are managed by our platform. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT record to be created, which is in fact the public encryption key that confirms if a particular email is genuine or not. Such a record is created when a new domain is added to a semi-dedicated server account via the Hepsia Control Panel and at the same time, a private key is created on our email servers. If you make use of our email and web hosting services, your email messages will always reach their target readers and you won’t have to worry about unsolicited individuals spoofing your email addresses for spamming or scamming purposes, which is something rather important if you use email messages to contact your business allies.