DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a method for checking the legitimacy of an email using a digital signature. When DomainKeys Identified Mail is enabled for a particular domain name, a public encryption key is published to the global Domain Name System and a private one is stored on the mail server. When a new message is sent, a signature is issued using the private key and when the email is delivered, the signature is authenticated by the receiving server using the public key. In this way, the recipient can easily distinguish if the message is legitimate or if the sender’s address has been forged. A discrepancy will occur if the content of the email has been edited in the meantime as well, so DKIM can also be used to ensure that the sent and the received email messages are identical and that nothing has been attached or deleted. This validation system will increase your email safety, since you can verify the genuineness of the important email messages that you get and your colleagues can do the exact same thing with the emails that you send them. Based on the given mail service provider’s policy, a message that fails the examination may be deleted or may be delivered to the recipient’s inbox with a warning alert.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Website Hosting

When you order any of the shared website hosting that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be activated by default for any domain that you add to your account, so you will not need to create any records or to do anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom 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 platform), a private key will be issued instantly on our mail servers and a TXT record with a public key will be sent to the Domain Name System. All email addresses set up with this domain name will be protected by DKIM, so if you send out emails such as periodic newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will be sure that the messages are genuine, because the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality makes it impossible for unauthorized persons to spoof your e-mail addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you opt for any of the Linux semi-dedicated packages offered by us, you’ll be able to use the DKIM protection service with any domain name that you register through your new semi-dedicated account without any manual setup, as our avant-garde cloud platform will create all the mandatory records automatically, provided that the domain name uses our name servers. The aforementioned is required for a TXT record to be created for the domain name, as this is how the public key can become available in the global DNS system. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so whenever you send a new email message, it will have our platform’s electronic signature. The number of spam email messages continues to grow every year and rather frequently phony email addresses are used, but when you make use of our web hosting services, you and your clients or partners will not need to worry about that.