DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email authentication system used to check that an email message has been sent by an authenticated person or server. An e-signature is added to the email message’s header using a private key. When the email is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to confirm who actually sent it and whether its content has been edited in some way. The chief task of DKIM is to avert the widely spread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If an email message is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for example, but the signature does not correspond, you will either not receive the message at all, or you’ll get it with a warning that most probably it is not a genuine one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails to pass the signature check. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also provide you with an additional protection layer when you communicate with your business partners, for example, since they can see that all the email messages that you send are authentic and haven’t been meddled with on their way.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Web Hosting

When you obtain any of the Linux shared web hosting that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled by default for any domain name that you register under your shared account, so you won’t need to set up any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX resource records (so that the emails related to this domain will be handled by our cloud web hosting platform), a private encryption key will be issued instantly on our email servers and a TXT record with a public key will be sent to the global Domain Name System. All addresses created using this domain will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send email messages such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the recipients will know that the messages are genuine, as the DomainKeys Identified Mail option makes it impossible for unsolicited individuals to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is offered by default with any domain name that’s added to a semi-dedicated server account with our company. 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 record to be set up, which is actually the public key that verifies if a certain email is genuine or not. Such a record is created once a domain name is registered in a semi-dedicated hosting account through the Hepsia Control Panel and in the meantime, a private key is created on our mail servers. If you use our web and email hosting services, your emails will always reach their target destination and you won’t need to worry about unauthorized parties spoofing your email addresses for spamming or scamming purposes, which is something pretty important if you use email messages to get in touch with your business allies.