DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which prevents email addresses from being spoofed and email content from being meddled with. This is achieved by adding an electronic signature to each and every email sent from an email address under a certain domain. The signature is issued based on a private encryption key that’s available on the outbound SMTP email server and it can be verified with a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. In this way, any email message with edited content or a spoofed sender can be spotted by email providers. This approach will boost your web security considerably and you will be sure that any message sent from a business associate, a bank, etc., is a legitimate one. When you send emails, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email message that appears to be fraudulent may either be labeled as such or may never be delivered to the receiver’s inbox, based on how the given provider has chosen to handle such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Website Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality is enabled by default for all domain names that are hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud platform, so you won’t need to do anything on your end to turn it on. The only condition is that the particular domain should be hosted in a website hosting account on our end using our NS and MX resource 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 includes the public key, will be published to the Domain Name System automatically, so you won’t need to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this functionality. The DKIM authentication system will allow you to send out trustworthy e-mails, so if you’re sending offers or a newsletter to clients, for example, your email messages will always reach their target viewers, whereas unauthorized 3rd parties will not be able to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality comes by default with any domain that is registered through a semi-dedicated server account with us. The domain must 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 encryption key that confirms if a particular message is authentic or not. This record is set up once a new domain is added to an account through the Hepsia Control Panel and at the same time, a private key is generated on our email servers. If you use our web and email hosting services, your emails will always reach their target readers and you won’t need to worry about unsolicited people forging your addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something very important in case you use email messages to touch base with your business associates.