DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which obstructs email addresses from being forged and email content from being tampered with. This is done by adding an electronic signature to every email sent from an address under a given domain name. The signature is generated on the basis of a private key that is available on the outgoing SMTP server and it can be verified with a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. Thus, any message with modified content or a forged sender can be spotted by mail service providers. This technology will strengthen your online security immensely and you’ll be sure that any message sent from a business collaborator, a banking institution, etc., is genuine. When you send emails, the recipient will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email message that appears to be fake may either be flagged as such or may never appear in the recipient’s mailbox, based on how the given provider has decided to handle such emails.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Website Hosting

When you buy any of the shared website hosting plans that we offer, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be activated as standard for any domain that you register under your shared account, so you will not have to create any records or to enable anything manually. When a domain is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS resource records (so that the emails related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud platform), a private encryption key will be created momentarily on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. All email addresses created with this domain name will be protected by DKIM, so if you send out email messages such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the receivers will be sure that the messages are legitimate, because the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature makes it impossible for unsolicited individuals to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated hosting plans come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so in case you pick a semi-dedicated plan and you add a domain name using our name servers through your Hepsia Control Panel, the records needed for the validation system will be set up automatically – a private encryption key on our mail servers for the e-signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the Domain Name System. Since the DKIM protection is set up for a certain domain name, all addresses created under it will carry a signature, so you will not need to worry that the messages that you send may not be delivered to their target email address or that someone may fake any of your email addresses and attempt to spam/scam people. This may be really important in case you rely on email communication in your business, since your colleagues and/or clients will be able to distinguish real messages from spoofed ones.