DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an authentication system used to verify that an email message has been sent by an authenticated mail server or person. A digital signature is added to the message’s header using a private cryptographic key. When the email message is received, a public key that’s available in the global Domain Name System is used to check who exactly sent it and whether its content has been altered in some way. The fundamental purpose of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to stop the widespread spam and scam messages, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email message is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for instance, but the signature doesn’t match, you will either not get the email message at all, or you will receive it with an alert that most likely it is not a genuine one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails to pass the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also supply you with an extra protection layer when you communicate with your business allies, for example, since they can see that all the emails that you send are genuine and haven’t been manipulated in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Web Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality is activated by default for all domain names that are hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our cloud hosting platform, so you will not need to do anything on your end to turn it on. The only requirement is that the particular domain name should be hosted in a website hosting account on our end using our MX and NS records, so that the e-mails will go through our email servers. The private encryption key will be created on the server and the TXT record, which contains the public key, will be published to the global DNS system automatically, so you won’t need to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this feature. The DKIM email validation system will enable you to send out trustworthy messages, so if you are sending offers or a newsletter to clients, for instance, your email messages will always reach their target destination, while unauthorized 3rd parties will not be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you pick one of the Linux semi-dedicated packages that we offer, you’ll be able to use the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature with any domain that you add to your brand-new account without any manual setup, as our advanced cloud platform will create all the required records automatically, as long as the domain name uses our name servers. The aforementioned is required for a TXT resource record to be set up for the domain name, 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 out a new message, it will have our platform’s e-signature. The number of junk messages keeps increasing each year and rather often fake email addresses are used, but if you use our hosting services, you and your clients or partners won’t need to bother about that.