DKIM, which is an abbreviation for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which impedes email addresses from being forged and email content from being manipulated. This is achieved by attaching an electronic signature to every email message sent from an email address under a specific domain name. The signature is issued on the basis of a private encryption key that is available on the SMTP mail server and it can be validated using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any email message with modified content or a spoofed sender can be identified by mail service providers. This technology will heighten your web safety tremendously and you’ll be sure that any message sent from a business collaborator, a bank, etc., is a legitimate one. When you send emails, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that turns out to be fraudulent may either be tagged as such or may never show up in the receiver’s inbox, depending on how the given provider has decided to handle such emails.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option is activated by default for all domains that are hosted in a cloud hosting account on our cloud website hosting platform, so you won’t need to do anything on your end to activate it. The only condition is that the given domain should be hosted in an account on our platform using our MX and NS resource records, so that the emails will go through our mail servers. The private encryption key will be created on the server and the TXT resource record, which contains the public key, will be published to the global DNS system automatically, so you will not need to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this option. The DKIM authentication system will allow you to send out credible e-mail messages, so if you are sending a newsletter or offers to clients, for instance, your emails will always reach their target destination, whereas unsolicited 3rd parties won’t be able to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All necessary DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be created automatically by our cloud web hosting platform when you add a domain name as hosted in your semi-dedicated server account, so in case you choose to get a semi-dedicated package, you will not have to configure anything to be able to take advantage of the email validation system. The domain name should use our name servers in order for its DNS records to be managed by our company and as long as this prerequisite is answered, a private encryption key will be generated on our mail servers and a public key will be published to the global Domain Name System by a special TXT record. All addresses that you create using the domain name will be protected by DKIM, which will make it impossible for 3rd parties to fake any email address. Both you and your associates or customers can benefit from this functionality, as it will guarantee a higher level of safety for your electronic correspondence.