DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to check that an email has been sent by an authorized server or person. An electronic signature is attached to the email’s header by using a private key. When the message is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to verify who actually sent it and if its content has been changed in any way. The fundamental function of DKIM is to stop the widespread scam and spam messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If a message is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for example, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not receive the email at all, or you will receive it with a warning note that most likely it’s not a genuine one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails to pass the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also give you an additional safety layer when you communicate with your business partners, for example, since they can see that all the emails that you exchange are genuine and haven’t been manipulated in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality is pre-enabled for all domain names that are hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud website hosting platform, so you won’t have to do anything on your end to enable it. The only condition is that the particular domain name should be hosted in a website hosting account on our platform using our MX and NS records, so that the email messages will go through our email servers. The private key will be created on the server and the TXT record, which contains the public key, will be published to the DNS database automatically, so you won’t need to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this feature. The DomainKeys Identified Mail email authentication system will enable you to send credible emails, so if you are sending offers or a newsletter to customers, for instance, your emails will always reach their target destination, whereas unauthorized third parties won’t be able to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is included by default with any domain that’s added to a semi-dedicated server account with us. It should also use our name servers, so that its DNS records are handled by our system. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT resource record to be set up, which is actually the public cryptographic key that confirms if a certain email is genuine or not. Such a record is created as soon as a domain is added to a semi-dedicated 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 email messages will always reach their target audience and you won’t have to worry about unsolicited persons using your email addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something quite important in case you use email messages to contact your business collaborators.