DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to check that an email message has been sent by an authenticated person or server. An e-signature is attached to the header of the email by using a private cryptographic key. When the email message is received, a public key that is available in the global Domain Name System is used to check who exactly sent it and if the content has been edited in some way. The primary task of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to block the widely spread spam and scam messages, as it makes it impossible to forge 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 receive the email at all, or you will get it with a warning that most probably it’s not an authentic one. It depends on email service providers what exactly will happen with an email that fails the signature test. DKIM will also give you an extra layer of security when you communicate with your business partners, for instance, since they can see that all the emails that you send are genuine and have not been modified on their way.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting
The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is pre-activated for all domain names that are hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform, so you will not have to do anything on your end to enable it. The only requirement is that the particular domain name should be hosted in an account on our end using our NS and MX resource records, so that the email messages will go through our mail servers. The private key will be created on the server and the TXT resource record, which includes the public key, will be published to the DNS database automatically, so you won’t have to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this option. The DomainKeys Identified Mail authentication system will enable you to send trustworthy e-mail messages, so if you are sending a newsletter or offers to clients, for example, your email messages will always reach their target viewers, whereas unauthorized 3rd parties won’t be able to spoof your email addresses.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you pick one of the semi-dedicated plans offered by our company, you’ll be able to use the DomainKeys Identified Mail protection service with any domain that you add to your new semi-dedicated server account without any manual setup, as our high-tech cloud web hosting platform will set up all the mandatory records automatically, on the condition that the domain name uses our name servers. The aforementioned is required for a TXT resource record to be created for the domain name, since this is how the public cryptographic key can become available in the global DNS database. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so anytime you send a new message, it will carry our system’s e-signature. The number of junk messages keeps growing each year and rather frequently counterfeit email addresses are used, but when you use our hosting services, you and your customers or partners won’t have to worry about that.