DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is a validation system, which impedes email addresses from being spoofed and email content from being modified. This is done by adding a digital signature to each email sent from an address under a certain domain. The signature is issued based on a private key that is available on the outgoing mail server and it can be validated with a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any email message with edited content or a spoofed sender can be spotted by mail service providers. This technology will increase your web safety markedly and you will know for sure that any email message sent from a business partner, a bank, 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 forged may either be tagged as such or may never show up in the recipient’s inbox, based on how the given provider has decided to deal with such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option is enabled by default for all domains that are hosted in a hosting account on our cloud platform, so you won’t have to do anything on your end to turn it on. The sole requirement is that the given domain name should be hosted in a web hosting account on our platform using our NS and MX records, so that the e-mail messages will go through our mail servers. The private cryptographic key will be created on the server and the TXT record, which contains the public key, will be published to the Domain Name System automatically, so you will not have to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this functionality. The DomainKeys Identified Mail authentication system will allow you to send out trustable messages, so if you’re sending a newsletter or offers to customers, for instance, your email messages will always reach their target audience, while unsolicited 3rd parties won’t be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

All required DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be set up automatically by our cloud web hosting platform when you add a domain as hosted in your semi-dedicated server account, so in case you decide to buy a semi-dedicated server package, you will not have to set up anything to be able to use the email authentication system. The domain name should use our name servers in order for its DNS resource records to be managed by us and if this condition is answered, a private cryptographic key will be created on our email servers and a public key will be published to the global DNS system by a special TXT resource record. All addresses that you set up using the domain name will be protected by DKIM, which will make it impossible for third parties to forge any address. Both you and your colleagues or clients can take advantage of this service, since it will guarantee a much higher protection level for your electronic communication.