DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which impedes email headers from being spoofed and email content from being meddled with. This is done by attaching an e-signature to every message sent from an email address under a given domain name. The signature is created on the basis of a private key that’s available on the outgoing SMTP server and it can be verified with a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. Thus, any email with edited content or a forged sender can be identified by mail service providers. This method will boost your worldwide web safety tremendously and you’ll know for sure that any email sent from a business partner, a banking institution, etc., is an authentic one. When you send email messages, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email message that appears to be counterfeit may either be marked as such or may never be delivered to the recipient’s inbox, depending on how the particular provider has chosen to handle such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Website Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option is pre-enabled for all domains that are hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud platform, so you won’t have to do anything yourself to turn it on. The sole condition is that the particular domain name should be hosted in a web hosting account on our platform using our MX and NS resource records, so that the emails will go through our mail servers. The private key will be generated on the server and the TXT record, which contains the public key, will be published to the global Domain Name System automatically, so you won’t have to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this feature. The DKIM authentication system will allow you to send trustworthy emails, so if you’re sending a newsletter or offers to clients, for example, your emails will always reach their target audience, whereas unauthorized 3rd parties won’t be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

All needed DKIM records will be created automatically by our cloud hosting platform when you add a domain name as hosted in a semi-dedicated server account, so if you decide to buy a semi-dedicated server 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 so that its DNS records can be managed by us and as long as this condition is matched, a private key will be created on our email servers and a public key will be added to the Domain Name System by a special TXT record. All email addresses that you set up using the domain name will be protected by DKIM, which will make it impossible for 3rd parties to spoof any address. Both you and your colleagues or customers can benefit from this service, since it will ensure a higher protection level for your online correspondence.