DKIM, which is an abbreviation for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which hinders email addresses from being forged and email content from being modified. This is achieved by attaching a digital signature to each email sent from an email address under a given domain name. The signature is created based on a private key that’s available on the outbound mail server and it can be validated with a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. Thus, any email message with altered content or a forged sender can be identified by email service providers. This approach will increase your worldwide web security substantially and you will know for sure that any e-mail message sent from a business partner, a banking institution, and so on, is authentic. When you send emails, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that turns out to be phony may either be marked as such or may never be delivered to the recipient’s mailbox, based on how the particular provider has decided to handle such emails.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

If you obtain one of the shared hosting plans that we’re offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be enabled as standard for any domain that you add to your shared website hosting account, so you will not need to create any records or to do 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 associated with this domain name will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private key will be issued momentarily on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the 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 know that they are authentic, because the DKIM option makes it impossible for unauthorized parties to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

All mandatory DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be set up automatically by our cloud web hosting platform when you add a domain name as hosted in a semi-dedicated server account, so in case you choose to buy a semi-dedicated package, you will not have to set up anything to be able to take advantage of the email authentication system. The domain should use our name servers so that its DNS resource records can be managed by us and if this condition is matched, a private cryptographic key will be generated on our email servers and a public key will be published to the global Domain Name System by a special TXT record. All addresses that you create using the domain name will be protected by DKIM, which will make it impossible for 3rd parties to fake any address. Both you and your colleagues or customers can benefit from this option, since it will guarantee a higher level of security for your e-correspondence.