DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to check that an email message has been sent by an authorized person or email server. An electronic signature is attached to the message’s header by using a private encryption key. When the email is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to check who exactly sent it and whether the content has been altered in any way. The main purpose of DKIM is to avert the widespread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If an email message is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for example, but the signature does not match, you will either not get the message at all, or you’ll get it with a warning notice that most probably it’s not a legitimate one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email message that fails to pass the signature check. DKIM will also supply you with an added layer of safety when you communicate with your business associates, for example, as they can see for themselves that all the email messages that you exchange are genuine and have not been modified in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

If you host a domain name in a shared hosting account with our company, all the mandatory records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be added by default. This will happen the moment you add the domain name in the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, as long as it also uses our NS records. A private cryptographic key will be generated on our mail servers, whereas a public key will be sent to the DNS database automatically by using the TXT resource record. In this way, you won’t need to do anything manually and you will be able to make use of all the benefits of this email validation system – your messages will be sent to any audience without being discarded and no one will be able to send out messages forging your e-mail addresses. The latter is quite important if the essence of your web presence suggests sending periodic offers or newsletters via email to potential and existing customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option comes by default with any domain that is registered through a semi-dedicated server account with us. It should also use our name servers, so that its DNS resource records are handled by our platform. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT record to be created, which is actually the public cryptographic key that verifies if a particular message is legitimate or not. Such a record is set up the moment a brand-new domain name is registered in a semi-dedicated account through the Hepsia Control Panel and in the meantime, a private key is created on our email servers. If you make use of our web and email hosting services, your emails will always reach their target destination and you will not need to worry about unsolicited parties spoofing your addresses for scamming or spamming purposes, which is something quite important in case you use emails to reach your business partners.