DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to confirm that an e-mail message has been sent by an authenticated mail server or person. An electronic signature is added to the header of the message by using a private cryptographic key. When the message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to confirm who actually sent it and if the content has been edited in any way. The chief task of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to obstruct the widely spread scam and spam emails, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email message is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for example, but the signature doesn’t match, you will either not get the email at all, or you’ll receive it with a warning alert that most likely it’s not a genuine one. It depends on mail service providers what exactly will happen with an email that fails the signature examination. DKIM will also give you an extra security layer when you communicate with your business allies, for instance, since they can see for themselves that all the e-mails that you send are authentic and have not been manipulated in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Hosting

You’ll be able to make the most of DomainKeys Identified Mail with each cloud service that we’re offering without the need to do anything specific, as the necessary records for using this authentication system are set up automatically by our website hosting platform when you add a domain to an active account through the Hepsia Control Panel. As long as the particular domain uses our NS records, a private encryption key will be created and kept on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. If you send periodic emails to clients or business associates, they’ll always be delivered and no unsolicited party will be able to spoof your address and make it look like you’ve written a particular email message.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose any of the Linux semi-dedicated service that we’re offering, you will be able to use the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature with any domain that you register through your brand new semi-dedicated hosting account without any manual intervention, as our high-tech cloud web hosting platform will create all the obligatory records automatically, provided that the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is required for a TXT record to be created for the domain, since this is how the public cryptographic key can become available in the global DNS system. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so anytime you send out a new email, it will have our system’s electronic signature. The number of spam messages keeps rising every year and quite frequently counterfeit email addresses are used, but when you use our web hosting services, you and your clients or colleagues won’t have to worry about that.