DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which hinders email addresses from being spoofed and email content from being modified. This is done by adding an e-signature to each email message sent from an address under a particular domain. The signature is generated based on a private cryptographic key that’s available on the outgoing SMTP email server and it can be validated by using a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. Thus, any email message with changed content or a spoofed sender can be spotted by mail service providers. This approach will boost your online security considerably and you will be sure that any e-mail message sent from a business associate, a bank, etc., is an authentic one. When you send messages, the recipient will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any mail that turns out to be bogus may either be flagged as such or may never appear in the receiver’s inbox, based on how the given provider has chosen to treat such emails.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Web Hosting

When you order any of the cloud web hosting that we’re offering, the DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality will be enabled as standard for any domain name that you add to your shared website hosting account, so you won’t need to set up any records or to do anything manually. When a domain name is added in the Hosted Domains section of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel using our NS and MX resource records (so that the emails associated with this domain will be handled by our cloud hosting platform), a private cryptographic key will be issued straight away on our email servers and a TXT resource record with a public key will be sent to the global DNS system. All addresses set up using this domain name will be protected by DKIM, so if you send out emails such as regular newsletters, they will reach their target destination and the recipients will know that they are legitimate, because the DomainKeys Identified Mail option makes it impossible for unsolicited persons to forge your email addresses.