DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is a validation system, which hinders email headers from being forged and email content from being manipulated. This is achieved by attaching a digital signature to every email sent from an email address under a certain domain name. The signature is published on the basis of a private cryptographic key that’s available on the outgoing SMTP server and it can be verified using 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 identified by mail service providers. This approach will strengthen your online safety noticeably and you’ll know for sure that any email message sent from a business partner, a banking institution, and so on, is legitimate. When you send emails, the recipient will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be fake may either be flagged as such or may never reach the receiver’s inbox, based on how the particular provider has chosen to treat such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Hosting

When you purchase one of the Linux cloud hosting that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled by default for any domain name that you add to your web hosting account, so you will not need to create any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX records (so that the emails related to this domain will be handled by our cloud web hosting platform), a private encryption key will be created immediately on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the global Domain Name System. All addresses created using this domain name will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send out email messages such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the recipients will be sure that they are authentic, because the DKIM feature makes it impossible for unauthorized individuals to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated servers come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so if you select a semi-dedicated server plan and you add a domain using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the authentication system will be set up automatically – a private encryption key on our email servers for the e-signature and a TXT resource record carrying the public key for the Domain Name System. As the DKIM protection is set up for a certain domain name, all addresses created using it will carry a signature, so you will not have to worry that the email messages that you send out may not be delivered to their destination address or that somebody may spoof any of your addresses and attempt to scam/spam people. This may be extremely essential if you rely on e-communication in your business, as your colleagues and/or customers will be able to distinguish genuine email messages from bogus ones.