DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to confirm that an e-mail message has been sent by an authorized person or server. A digital signature is added to the header of the email message using a private key. When the email is received, a public key that’s available in the global Domain Name System is used to check who actually sent it and if the content has been edited in some way. The essential purpose of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to block 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 or financial institution, for example, but the signature does not match, you will either not receive the message at all, or you’ll get it with a warning note that most probably it is not a genuine one. It depends on mail service providers what exactly will happen with an email message which fails the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also provide you with an additional layer of protection when you communicate with your business associates, for example, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you exchange are legitimate and haven’t been modified in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Web Hosting

When you get one of the Linux cloud web hosting that we’re offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be enabled by default for any domain name that you add to your shared website hosting account, so you won’t have to create any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud web hosting platform), a private encryption key will be generated straight away on our mail servers and a TXT record with a public key will be sent to the global DNS database. All addresses set up with this domain name will be protected by DKIM, so if you send emails such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the receivers will be sure that they are authentic, as the DKIM functionality makes it impossible for unauthorized people to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated hosting come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so in case you pick a semi-dedicated server plan and you add a domain using our name servers via your Hepsia Control Panel, the records needed for the validation system will be created automatically – a private encryption key on our mail servers for the electronic signature and a TXT resource record carrying the public key for the global DNS database. As the DKIM protection is set up for a specific domain name, all addresses created with it will have a signature, so you won’t have to worry that the emails that you send may not be delivered to their destination address or that somebody may forge any of your addresses and try to scam/spam people. This may be quite important when you rely on electronic communication in your business, as your partners and/or customers will be able to distinguish genuine email messages from forged ones.