DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an authentication system, which hinders email addresses from being forged and email content from being tampered with. This is achieved by attaching a digital signature to every message sent from an address under a certain domain name. The signature is created on the basis of a private key that’s available on the outbound email server and it can be validated with a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any message with modified content or a forged sender can be spotted by email service providers. This approach will strengthen your worldwide web safety considerably and you’ll be sure that any e-mail sent from a business ally, a banking institution, and so on, is genuine. When you send out messages, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email message that appears to be bogus may either be marked as such or may never reach the receiver’s inbox, based on how the particular provider has chosen to treat such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

In case you host a domain in a hosting account with us, all the needed records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be created by default. This will happen once you add the domain name in the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, as long as the domain also uses our NS records. A private encryption key will be created on our email servers, while a public key will be published to the global Domain Name System automatically by using the TXT resource record. Thus, you won’t need to do anything manually and you will be able to take advantage of all the benefits of this email validation system – your messages will reach any target destination without being disallowed and nobody will be able to send emails faking your e-mail addresses. The latter is pretty important if the type of your worldwide web presence suggests sending periodic newsletters or offers via email to prospective and current customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All mandatory DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be created automatically by our cloud hosting platform when you add a domain as hosted in your semi-dedicated server account, so in case you decide to get a semi-dedicated plan, you won’t need to configure anything to be able to use the email validation system. The domain should use our name servers in order for its DNS resource records to be managed by us and provided that this condition is satisfied, a private key will be generated on our email servers and a public key will be added to the global DNS system by a special TXT record. All email addresses that you create with the domain name will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, which will make it impossible for 3rd parties to fake any address. Both you and your associates or customers can take advantage of this functionality, since it will ensure a much higher level of security for your online communication.