DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which blocks email headers from being spoofed and email content from being modified. This is achieved by attaching an electronic signature to every email sent from an email address under a certain domain. The signature is published 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 altered content or a spoofed sender can be recognized by email service providers. This approach will boost your web security substantially and you’ll know for sure that any message sent from a business associate, a bank, etc., is genuine. When you send out emails, the receiver will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that turns out to be fraudulent may either be tagged as such or may never show up in the receiver’s mailbox, depending on how the given provider has decided to cope with such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Web Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is enabled by default for all domain names that are hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our cloud platform, so you will not need to do anything yourself to activate it. The only condition is that the particular domain should be hosted in a web hosting account on our end using our MX and NS 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 contains the public key, will be published to the global DNS system automatically, so you will not need to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this functionality. The DKIM email authentication system will enable you to send out trustable messages, so if you’re sending a newsletter or offers to customers, for example, your email messages will always reach their target audience, whereas unsolicited 3rd parties will not be able to spoof your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you pick any of the Linux semi-dedicated servers offered by us, you’ll be able to use DKIM protection with any domain that you register through your brand-new semi-dedicated server account without any manual intervention, as our advanced cloud platform will set up all the obligatory records automatically, as long as the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is required for a TXT record to be set up for the domain, since this is how the public encryption key can become available in the global DNS system. The private key will also be added automatically to our mail servers, so whenever you send a new email, it will have our platform’s electronic signature. The number of unsolicited bulk messages keeps increasing each year and rather often counterfeit addresses are used, but if you make use of our web hosting services, you and your customers or associates won’t need to worry about that.