DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which obstructs email headers from being forged and email content from being tampered with. This is done by attaching an electronic signature to each and every email message sent from an address under a certain domain. The signature is generated based on a private encryption key that is available on the outbound email server and it can be verified with a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. In this way, any message with altered content or a spoofed sender can be spotted by email service providers. This approach will strengthen your online security markedly and you will know for sure that any email message sent from a business associate, a banking institution, etc., is authentic. When you send out email messages, the receiver will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that appears to be forged may either be labeled as such or may never end up in the receiver’s inbox, based on how the given provider has decided to deal with such emails.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Web Hosting

When you purchase one of the Linux shared web hosting that we offer, the DomainKeys Identified Mail option will be activated by default for any domain name that you add to your website hosting account, so you will not have to set up any records or to activate anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our custom Hepsia Control Panel using our MX and NS records (so that the emails associated with this domain name will be handled by our cloud platform), a private cryptographic key will be issued straight away on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the DNS system. All addresses set up using this domain will be protected by DKIM, so if you send email messages such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target audience and the receivers will be sure that the messages are genuine, as the DKIM option makes it impossible for unsolicited individuals to forge your addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you pick one of the Linux semi-dedicated hosting offered by our company, you’ll be able to use the DKIM option with any domain that you register through your brand new semi-dedicated server account without any manual setup, as our leading-edge cloud hosting platform will set up all the necessary records automatically, on the condition that the domain name uses our name servers. The aforementioned is required for a TXT resource record to be created for the domain name, as this is how the public key can become available in the global DNS system. The private key will also be added automatically to our mail servers, so every time you send out a new message, it will include our platform’s e-signature. The number of spam messages continues to rise every year and very often counterfeit addresses are used, but if you use our web hosting services, you and your clients or partners will not need to bother about that.