DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to confirm that an e-mail message has been sent by an authenticated server or individual. An electronic signature is attached to the message’s header 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 confirm who exactly sent it and if its content has been edited in some way. The prime purpose of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to hamper the widely spread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to fake an email address. If an email message is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank, for instance, but the signature does not match, you will either not get the email at all, or you will receive it with a notification that most probably it is not a genuine one. It depends on mail service providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails the signature check. DKIM will also provide you with an additional layer of safety when you communicate with your business associates, for example, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you exchange are authentic and have not been tampered with on their way.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

In case you host a domain in a shared hosting account from our company, all the necessary records for using the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality will be set up by default. This will happen as soon as you add the domain name in the Control Panel’s Hosted Domains section, as long as your domain also uses our NS resource records. A private key will be created on our email servers, while a public key will be sent to the DNS database automatically by using the TXT record. Thus, you will not have to do anything manually and you’ll be able to take full advantage of all the benefits of this email validation system – your email messages will be delivered to any destination without being discarded and nobody will be able to send emails forging your email addresses. The latter is very important if the type of your web presence involves sending out periodic offers or newsletters via email to prospective and existing customers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you choose one of the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we are offering, you will be able to use DomainKeys Identified Mail protection with any domain name that you register through your new account without any manual setup, as our high-tech cloud web hosting platform will set up all the required records automatically, on the condition that the domain uses our name servers. The aforementioned is needed for a TXT resource record to be set up for the domain name, since this is how the public cryptographic key can become available in the global Domain Name System. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so whenever you send out a new message, it will include our platform’s electronic signature. The number of spam email messages continues to grow every year and rather frequently false addresses are used, but when you make use of our web hosting services, you and your customers or partners will not have to bother about that.