DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which impedes email headers from being spoofed and email content from being manipulated. This is achieved by attaching an e-signature to every email sent from an email address under a specific domain name. The signature is created on the basis of a private cryptographic key that’s available on the outgoing email server and it can be validated by using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any message with changed content or a spoofed sender can be spotted by mail service providers. This technology will strengthen your web safety markedly and you’ll be sure that any email message sent from a business associate, a banking institution, etc., is legitimate. When you send emails, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that turns out to be fake may either be flagged as such or may never enter the recipient’s mailbox, based on how the particular provider has decided to deal with such email messages.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Website Hosting
When you obtain any of the website hosting that we are offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be enabled by default for any domain that you add to your shared website hosting account, so you will not have to create any records or to do anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom-developed 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 web hosting platform), a private key will be created momentarily on our email servers and a TXT record with a public key will be sent to the global DNS system. All addresses set up with this domain name will be protected by DKIM, so if you send out emails such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the recipients will be sure that the messages are genuine, as the DKIM feature makes it impossible for unsolicited parties to spoof your addresses.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated packages come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so if you pick a semi-dedicated server plan and you add a domain name using our name servers via your Hepsia Control Panel, the records required for the email validation system will be created automatically – a private key on our email servers for the electronic signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the Domain Name System. As the DKIM protection is set up for a certain domain name, all e-mail addresses created under it will carry a signature, so you won’t need to worry that the messages that you send out may not be delivered to their destination address or that somebody may spoof any of your addresses and try to spam/scam people. This may be really essential in case you use e-communication in your business, as your colleagues and/or customers will be able to distinguish real emails from counterfeit ones.