DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to verify that an e-mail has been sent by an authorized individual or mail server. An electronic signature is attached to the header of the email using a private encryption key. When the email is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to validate who actually sent it and whether the content has been changed in some way. The primary job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to hamper the widely spread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If an email is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for instance, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not receive the email message at all, or you’ll get it with a warning notice that most likely it’s not an authentic one. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails to pass the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also supply you with an additional layer of protection when you communicate with your business partners, for instance, since they can see for themselves that all the email messages that you exchange are genuine and have not been tampered with on their way.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Hosting

In case you host a domain name in a cloud hosting account with us, all the necessary records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be set up by default. This will happen once you add the domain name in , as long as your domain also uses our NS resource records. A private cryptographic key will be generated on our email servers, whereas a public key will be published to the DNS database automatically by using the TXT resource record. Thus, you won’t have to do anything manually and you’ll be able to make use of all the benefits of this validation system – your email messages will be sent to any destination without being rejected and no one will be able to send messages faking your e-mail addresses. The latter is really important in case the nature of your worldwide web presence suggests sending periodic offers or newsletters via email to potential and current customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated packages come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so in case you pick a semi-dedicated server package and you add a domain using our name servers via your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the validation system will be set up automatically – a private cryptographic key on our email servers for the digital signature and a TXT resource record carrying the public key for the global Domain Name System. As the protection is set up for a particular domain name, all e-mail addresses created with it will carry a signature, so you won’t need to worry that the messages that you send may not be delivered to their target email address or that somebody may fake any of your addresses and try to spam/scam people. This may be quite important if you rely on e-communication in your business, since your associates and/or clients will be able to distinguish real messages from counterfeit ones.