DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an authentication system, which impedes email headers from being forged and email content from being manipulated. This is achieved by attaching a digital signature to each message sent from an email address under a certain domain. The signature is created on the basis of a private cryptographic key that’s available on the outbound SMTP server and it can be validated with a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. In this way, any email with edited content or a forged sender can be identified by email providers. This approach will enhance your online security noticeably and you’ll be sure that any e-mail message sent from a business associate, a banking institution, etc., is a legitimate one. When you send messages, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that turns out to be fake may either be flagged as such or may never appear in the recipient’s inbox, depending on how the given provider has decided to deal with such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Web Hosting

If you host a domain name in a shared web hosting account from us, all the needed records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail feature will be created by default. This will happen once you add the domain name in the Hosted Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel, provided that the domain also uses our NS records. A private encryption key will be generated on our mail servers, whereas a public key will be sent to the global DNS database automatically using the TXT record. Thus, you will not need to do anything manually and you will be able to take full advantage of all the benefits of this email authentication system – your email messages will be sent to any target destination without being discarded and nobody will be able to send email messages faking your email addresses. The latter is really important in case the essence of your worldwide web presence involves sending regular newsletters or offers via email to potential and current customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated hosting come with DomainKeys Identified Mail activated by default, so in case you opt for a semi-dedicated hosting plan and you add a domain name using our name servers via your Hepsia Control Panel, the records needed for the email authentication system will be set up automatically – a private encryption key on our email servers for the electronic signature and a TXT record carrying the public key for the DNS database. Since the protection is set up for a given domain, all addresses created under it will carry a signature, so you won’t have to worry that the email messages that you send out may not reach their destination address or that someone may spoof any of your addresses and try to scam/spam people. This may be rather important in case you use email communication in your business, since your partners and/or clients will be able to distinguish real email messages from bogus ones.