🧮 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 504,841 domains probed so far (38.6% 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 338,256 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 193,357 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 137,106 (40.5%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 7,793 (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. 93,072 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 93,254 use a salt; 952 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0100,286
51.9%
184,602
43.8%
43
0.0%
58
0.0%
74,766
2.5%
87
0.0%
103,196
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50475
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com89,6820.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk44,145100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk21,386100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk9,064100.0%100.0%
hyp.net5,1310%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,386100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,643100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,457100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,41862.6%62.6%
e-studio.dk1,78798.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,3950%0.0%
123hotel.dk760100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk647100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk55398.6%98.6%
simpleagencygroup.dk405100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk402100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk391100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net380100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net33893.2%93.2%
yayhosting.dk33099.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk31183.3%100.0%
desec.io2570%0.0%
designrus.dk2560%0.0%
deic.dk2410%0.0%
eurodns.com2290%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). 124,409 of the 366,853 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 334 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

94,695 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
lmchuse.dk11 bytes
lmd.dk11 bytes
lmdrift.dk11 bytes
lme-mobil.dk11 bytes
lme-partner.dk11 bytes
lme-test.dk11 bytes
lmeconnect.dk11 bytes
lmee.dk11 bytes
lmepartner.dk11 bytes
lmi.dk11 bytes
lmkom.dk11 bytes
lmm.dk11 bytes
lmm2021.dk11 bytes
lmmb.dk78 bytes
lmo-seniorklubben.dk11 bytes
lmq.dk11 bytes
lmrbolig.dk11 bytes
lms.dk11 bytes
lmsdetail.dk11 bytes
lmservice.dk11 bytes
lmserviceaars.dk11 bytes
lmservices.dk11 bytes
lmshoppen.dk78 bytes
lmstage.dk11 bytes
lmsupport.dk11 bytes
lmtest.dk11 bytes
lmudanmark.dk11 bytes
lmvvs.dk11 bytes
lmweb.dk11 bytes
lmy.dk11 bytes
ln-bilcenter.dk11 bytes
ln-engineering.dk78 bytes
ln-ladby.dk11 bytes
ln-terapi.dk11 bytes
ln2.dk11 bytes
lnaevn.dk108 bytes
lnapsyk.dk11 bytes
lnb.dk78 bytes
lnbk.dk11 bytes
lndesign.dk11 bytes
lnfs.dk11 bytes
lnhave.dk11 bytes
lnhwater.dk11 bytes
lnkart.dk11 bytes
lnkropsterapi.dk11 bytes
lnnordic.dk11 bytes
lnogco.dk11 bytes
lnrun.dk11 bytes
lnvand.dk11 bytes
lnweb.dk11 bytes
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