DKIM, which is an acronym for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email validation system, which prevents email headers from being spoofed and email content from being meddled with. This is done by attaching a digital signature to every email sent from an address under a specific domain name. The signature is generated based on a private encryption key that is available on the SMTP email server and it can be verified with a public key, which is available in the global Domain Name System. In this way, any email with changed content or a spoofed sender can be recognized by email service providers. This method will increase your online safety immensely and you’ll be sure that any e-mail message sent from a business associate, a banking institution, and so on, is an authentic one. When you send out email messages, the receiver will also be sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email that appears to be fake may either be marked as such or may never appear in the recipient’s mailbox, depending on how the given provider has chosen to handle such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Website Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is pre-activated for all domain names that are hosted in a website hosting account on our cloud servers, so you will not need to do anything yourself to activate it. The only requirement is that the particular domain should be hosted in an account on our platform using our MX and NS records, so that the emails will go through our mail servers. The private encryption 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 need to do anything manually on your end in order to activate this functionality. The DKIM email validation system will enable you to send trustable e-mail messages, so if you’re sending a newsletter or offers to clients, for example, your emails will always reach their target destination, whereas unsolicited third parties will not be able to spoof your email addresses.