DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which impedes email headers from being forged and email content from being tampered with. This is done by attaching a digital signature to each and every message sent from an address under a given domain name. The signature is created based on a private cryptographic key that’s available on the outgoing server and it can be verified with a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any email with modified content or a forged sender can be spotted by email providers. This approach will increase your online security immensely and you will know for sure that any e-mail message sent from a business partner, a banking institution, and so on, is a legitimate one. When you send out messages, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be fake may either be labeled as such or may never end up in the recipient’s inbox, depending on how the particular provider has chosen to deal with such email messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain in a shared hosting account with us, all the necessary 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 hosting Control Panel, provided that it also uses our NS resource records. A private encryption key will be created on our mail servers, whereas a public key will be sent to the global DNS system automatically using the TXT record. In this way, you won’t need to do anything manually and you will be able to make use of all the benefits of this authentication system – your messages will be delivered to any audience without being rejected and no one will be able to send email messages forging your e-mail addresses. The latter is truly important if the type of your online presence involves sending out periodic newsletters or offers via email to prospective and existing customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you pick any of the semi-dedicated hosting plans offered by us, you will be able to use DKIM protection with any domain name that you register through your brand new account without any manual setup, as our outstanding cloud web hosting platform will set up all the required records automatically, on the condition that the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is needed for a TXT record to be created for the domain name, as this is how the public encryption key can become available in the global DNS database. The private key will also be added automatically to our mail servers, so every time you send out a new email message, it will include our platform’s electronic signature. The number of spam messages continues to rise each year and rather often fake addresses are used, but if you use our hosting services, you and your customers or associates will not have to worry about that.