DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which impedes email addresses from being spoofed and email content from being meddled with. This is achieved by attaching a digital signature to each and every message sent from an address under a particular domain name. The signature is created based on a private cryptographic key that is available on the outgoing SMTP email server and it can be verified 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 email providers. This technology will strengthen your web safety noticeably and you will know for sure that any e-mail message sent from a business partner, a banking institution, etc., is a genuine one. When you send out email messages, the receiver will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that turns out to be fraudulent may either be labeled as such or may never show up in the receiver’s mailbox, based on how the given provider has decided to treat such email messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is enabled by default for all domains that are hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud website hosting platform, so you will not have to do anything yourself to turn it on. The only condition is that the given domain should be hosted in a hosting account on our platform using our NS and MX resource records, so that the email messages will go through our mail servers. The private cryptographic key will be generated on the server and the TXT record, which includes the public key, will be published to the DNS system automatically, so you won’t have to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this functionality. The DKIM email authentication system will allow you to send trustable e-mail messages, so if you’re sending offers or a newsletter to customers, for instance, your emails will always reach their target destination, while unauthorized third parties won’t be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose one of the semi-dedicated hosting packages offered by us, you’ll be able to use DKIM protection with any domain name that you add to your brand new semi-dedicated server account without any manual setup, as our innovative cloud web hosting platform will set up all the needed records automatically, as long as the domain uses our name servers. The latter is needed for a TXT resource record to be set up for the domain, since this is how the public key can become available in the global DNS database. The private key will also be added automatically to our mail servers, so anytime you send a new message, it will include our system’s digital signature. The number of junk messages keeps rising every year and very often fake email addresses are used, but if you make use of our hosting services, you and your clients or colleagues won’t need to bother about that.