DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an email validation system used to confirm that an e-mail has been sent by an authenticated email server or individual. A digital signature is added to the header of the email message using a private encryption 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 whether the content has been modified in any way. The principal job of DomainKeys Identified Mail is to hamper the widely spread spam and scam email messages, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If a message is sent from an address claiming to belong to your bank or financial institution, for instance, but the signature does not correspond, you will either not get the email at all, or you will get it with a warning alert that most likely it is not genuine. It depends on mail service providers what exactly will happen with an email which fails the signature test. DomainKeys Identified Mail will also provide you with an added protection layer when you communicate with your business partners, for instance, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mail messages that you send are genuine and have not been meddled with in the meantime.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Cloud Website Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is activated by default for all domain names that are hosted in a cloud website hosting account on our cloud platform, so you will not have to do anything yourself to enable it. The sole condition is that the particular domain name should be hosted in a web hosting account on our end using our NS and MX resource records, so that the emails will go through our mail servers. The private key will be generated on the server and the TXT 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 authentication system will enable you to send out trustworthy e-mail messages, so if you’re sending offers or a newsletter to customers, for instance, your emails will always reach their target viewers, whereas unsolicited 3rd parties will not be able to forge your email addresses.