DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication system used to check that an email message has been sent by an authenticated individual or server. An electronic signature is added to the message’s header by using a private key. When the email is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to check who actually sent it and if its content has been changed in any way. The essential job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to hinder the widespread scam and spam messages, 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 or financial institution, for example, but the signature doesn’t match, you will either not receive the email message at all, or you’ll receive it with a warning notification that most probably it is not legitimate. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails to pass the signature examination. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also offer you an additional safety layer when you communicate with your business partners, for example, as they can see that all the email messages that you exchange are genuine and haven’t been manipulated in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option is pre-enabled for all domains that are hosted in a cloud hosting account on our cloud hosting platform, so you will not need to do anything on your end to enable it. The sole requirement is that the given domain should be hosted in a website hosting account on our platform using our NS and MX resource records, so that the e-mail messages will go through our email servers. The private cryptographic key will be created on the server and the TXT record, which contains the public key, will be published to the global DNS system automatically, so you will not need to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this functionality. The DomainKeys Identified Mail authentication system will permit you to send credible e-mail messages, so if you are sending offers or a newsletter to clients, for example, your emails will always reach their target destination, whereas unsolicited third parties will not be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality comes by default with any domain that’s added to a semi-dedicated server account with our company. The domain should also use our name servers, so that its DNS resource records are managed by our system. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT record to be set up, which is in fact the public encryption key that confirms if a specific email message is genuine or not. Such a record is set up the moment a domain name is registered in a semi-dedicated account via 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 messages will always reach their target viewers and you won’t need to worry about unsolicited people using your email addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something pretty important when you use emails to contact your business allies.