DKIM, which is an abbreviation for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which hinders email addresses from being forged and email content from being manipulated. This is done by attaching a digital signature to every email message sent from an email address under a certain domain. The signature is generated on the basis of a private encryption key that’s available on the outbound SMTP server and it can be validated with a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any message with edited content or a forged sender can be spotted by email providers. This technology will strengthen your online security noticeably and you’ll know for sure that any e-mail message sent from a business associate, a bank, etc., is a legitimate one. When you send out messages, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be bogus may either be marked as such or may never show up in the recipient’s mailbox, depending on how the given provider has chosen to deal with such email messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Website Hosting

If you host a domain name in a website hosting account from us, all the mandatory records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be created by default. This will happen once you add the domain in the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, on the condition that it also uses our NS resource records. A private encryption key will be created on our mail servers, while a public key will be published to the global Domain Name System automatically using the TXT record. Thus, you won’t have to do anything manually and you will be able to make use of all the benefits of this authentication system – your messages will reach any destination without being discarded and nobody will be able to send email messages faking your email addresses. The latter is pretty important if the nature of your Internet presence involves sending regular offers or newsletters via email to prospective and current customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is offered by default with any domain that is added to a semi-dedicated server account with our company. It must also use our name servers, so that its DNS resource records are managed by our platform. The latter makes it possible for a special TXT resource record to be set up, which is actually the public cryptographic key that verifies if a specific email message is authentic or not. Such a record is set up once a domain name is registered in 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 make use of our web and email hosting services, your email messages will always reach their target readers and you won’t have to worry about unauthorized people spoofing your addresses for spamming or scamming purposes, which is something really important when you use email messages to communicate with your business partners.