DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a system for verifying the authenticity of an email by using a digital signature. When DomainKeys Identified Mail is enabled for a particular domain name, a public key is published to the global DNS 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 message is delivered, that signature is verified by the receiving server using the public key. In this way, the recipient can easily distinguish if the email message is legitimate or if the sender’s email address has been forged. A mismatch will occur if the content of the email message has been edited in the meantime as well, so DomainKeys Identified Mail can also be used to ensure that the sent and the received email messages are identical and that nothing has been attached or erased. This authentication system will strengthen your email security, since you can verify the authenticity of the important emails that you get and your associates can do the same with the emails that you send them. Depending on the given email service provider’s adopted policy, an email that fails the check may be removed or may enter the recipient’s inbox with a warning symbol.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

If you order any of the shared hosting plans that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be activated by default for any domain name that you add to your hosting 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 in-house built Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS resource records (so that the email messages related to this domain name will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private cryptographic key will be issued instantly on our email 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 DomainKeys Identified Mail, so if you send out email messages such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will know that they are genuine, because the DKIM functionality makes it impossible for unsolicited persons to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option is included by default with any domain name that’s added to a semi-dedicated server account with our company. It must also use our name servers, so that its DNS resource records are handled by our system. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT resource record to be set up, which is in fact the public encryption key that confirms if a certain message is authentic or not. Such a record is created when a domain name is added to a semi-dedicated server account through the Hepsia Control Panel and at the same time, a private key is created on our mail servers. If you use our email and web hosting services, your emails will always reach their target readers and you will not need to worry about unauthorized parties using your addresses for spamming or scamming purposes, which is something really important if you use emails to reach your business allies.