DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to verify that an email has been sent by an authorized email server or individual. An electronic signature is attached to the header of the message by using a private cryptographic key. When the message is received, a public key that’s available in the global Domain Name System is used to verify who actually sent it and whether the content has been changed in any way. The chief job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to prevent the widespread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If a message is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for example, but the signature doesn’t correspond, you will either not get the email at all, or you will get it with a notification that most probably it is not genuine. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email message which fails the signature examination. DKIM will also supply you with an additional layer of security when you communicate with your business allies, for instance, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you exchange are legitimate and haven’t been meddled with on their way.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting
You’ll be able to make full use of DomainKeys Identified Mail with each and every shared hosting plans that we are offering without doing anything in particular, as the required records for using this email validation system are created automatically by our hosting platform when you add a domain to an existing hosting account through the Hepsia Control Panel. If the given domain name uses our NS records, a private cryptographic key will be created and kept on our mail servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the DNS database. In case you send out regular email messages to customers or business collaborators, they’ll always be delivered and no unauthorized party will be able to forge your email address and make it look like you have sent a given email message.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers
All obligatory DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be set up 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 decide to purchase a semi-dedicated server package, you won’t need to set up anything to be able to use the email validation system. The domain name should use our name servers so that its DNS resource records can be managed by us and in case 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 record. All addresses that you set up with the domain will be protected by DomainKeys Identified Mail, which will make it impossible for 3rd parties to forge any email address. Both you and your partners or customers can take advantage of this feature, since it will ensure a much higher protection level for your e-communication.