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Another advantage of DKIM is its role in building sender reputation. Email service providers and spam filters take into account the presence of DKIM signatures when assessing the trustworthiness of senders. Emails that pass DKIM authentication are more likely to be considered legitimate and are less likely to be marked as spam. This helps legitimate senders maintain a positive sender reputation and ensures that their emails have a better chance of reaching the inbox rather than being filtered out or blocked.

DKIM is a widely accepted and expected component for reliable email delivery and should be enabled on your web site now. Make sure DKIM is enabled in your DNS records as soon as possible. DKIM is available by default on all GlowHost Web Hosting packages and can be set up with a few clicks in your web site control panel and in many cases is already setup for you by default. 

DKIM is also one of the essential building blocks along with SPF (Sender Policy Framework) for those seeking to deploy a full-blown DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) policy for the their sending domains. While DMARC is not necessarily required to send emails reliably, DMARC is starting to become widely adopted to increase email security and brand trust across the Internet. You can Larger organizations are encouraged to implement a DMARC as soon as possible, and the process does take some time and technical knowledge to achieve. 

You can learn more about how DMARC, SPF and DKIM work together as we have created an entire section that tackles DMARC from Start to finish. DKIM is available by default on all GlowHost Web Hosting packages and can be set up with a few clicks in your web site control panelstart to finish within this knowledge base. GlowHost also offers Managed DMARC Services for those that would prefer a "done for you" hands-off DMARC approach, or for those organizations that prefer to outsource or supplement their own IT department's management of their DMARC policy. GlowHost's Managed DMARC Services combine experienced DMARC email technicians with a Software as a Service DMARC dashboard complete with graphs and robust reporting options.