🧮 NSEC3 & CDS

Authenticated denial (NSEC vs NSEC3), RFC 9276 iteration compliance and automated key rollover (CDS/CDNSKEY) · all insights

Signed zones prove that a name does not exist with NSEC or NSEC3 records. RFC 9276 recommends NSEC3 with zero extra iterations and no salt; this page measures how many .dk zones follow that, which providers don't, and who publishes CDS/CDNSKEY for automated key rollovers. Data comes from our own scanners, which re-resolve every .dk domain in the zone roughly once a week.

Based on 584,448 domains probed so far (44.7% of the zone). A domain's probe is refreshed with every full scan, and otherwise roughly every 30–35 days, so while the first pass is still filling in the numbers can shift.

🧮 NSEC3 iterations

Of 392,487 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 223,545 (57.0%) use NSEC3, 159,970 (40.8%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 8,972 (2.3%) use compact denial (RFC 9824, Cloudflare's "black lies"), which can't be walked. RFC 9276 asks NSEC3 zones for 0 extra iterations and no salt: iterations cost resolvers CPU for no security gain. 107,784 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 107,997 use a salt; 1,070 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0115,769
51.8%
198,278
44.0%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
75,424
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,517
1.6%
125
0.0%
141
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50530
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com103,6330.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk51,252100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk24,839100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk10,580100.0%100.0%
hyp.net5,9100%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,912100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,112100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,77061.8%61.8%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,03898.1%98.1%
loopia.se1,5990%0.0%
123hotel.dk874100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk739100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk62998.4%98.4%
simpleagencygroup.dk473100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk470100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk463100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net441100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net38592.7%92.7%
yayhosting.dk38499.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk35383.6%100.0%
desec.io3000%0.0%
deic.dk2630%0.0%
designrus.dk2620%0.0%
eurodns.com2540%0.0%

🔄 CDS / CDNSKEY (automated DS updates)

CDS and CDNSKEY records let a DNS operator hand key rollovers to the registry automatically (RFC 7344/8078). 145,230 of the 425,753 signed zones we asked (34.1%) publish them; 383 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
365.dk11 bytes
365ansvar.dk11 bytes
365architects.dk11 bytes
365arkitekterne.dk11 bytes
365basyd.dk11 bytes
365beskyttelse.dk11 bytes
365connect.dk11 bytes
365eggrindsted.dk11 bytes
365nem.dk11 bytes
365pim.dk11 bytes
365real.dk11 bytes
365safe.dk11 bytes
365salg.dk11 bytes
365secure.dk11 bytes
365securescore.dk11 bytes
365sikkerhed.dk11 bytes
365sikkerhedsscore.dk11 bytes
365supporten.dk11 bytes
365tech.dk11 bytes
365tryghed.dk11 bytes
365ucrs.dk11 bytes
365viborg.dk11 bytes
366.dk78 bytes
36786636.dk11 bytes
3760gudhjem.dk11 bytes
37c.dk11 bytes
38288619.dk11 bytes
38603555.dk11 bytes
38606969.dk11 bytes
3869.dk11 bytes
38715152.dk11 bytes
39560002.dk11 bytes
39560820.dk11 bytes
39561070.dk11 bytes
39674828.dk11 bytes
3a-fyn.dk11 bytes
3a-revision.dk78 bytes
3alder.dk11 bytes
3alight.dk11 bytes
3art.dk11 bytes
3atravel.dk11 bytes
3b.dk11 bytes
3bil-priser.dk11 bytes
3biltilbud.dk11 bytes
3blaa.dk11 bytes
3brebyg.dk11 bytes
3buspriser.dk11 bytes
3byg-aps.dk11 bytes
3cd.dk11 bytes
3cm.dk11 bytes
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