DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which stops email headers from being forged and email content from being modified. This is done by adding an e-signature to each message sent from an address under a specific domain name. The signature is generated based on a private key that’s available on the outbound email server and it can be validated with a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. In this way, any message with modified content or a forged sender can be identified by email service providers. This technology will increase your web security considerably and you will know for sure that any e-mail message sent from a business partner, a banking institution, etc., is legitimate. When you send out email messages, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that turns out to be counterfeit may either be labeled as such or may never show up in the receiver’s inbox, based on how the given provider has decided to handle such email messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Web Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail option is pre-enabled for all domains that are hosted in a shared web hosting account on our cloud servers, so you will not need to do anything yourself to enable it. The sole requirement is that the given domain should be hosted in a hosting account on our platform using our MX and NS records, so that the emails will go through our email servers. The private cryptographic key will be created on the server and the TXT resource record, which contains the public key, will be published to the global Domain Name System automatically, so you won’t need to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this feature. The DomainKeys Identified Mail email validation system will enable you to send credible email messages, so if you’re sending a newsletter or offers to clients, for example, your email messages will always reach their target viewers, while unauthorized third parties will not be able to forge your email addresses.