🧮 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 468,858 domains probed so far (35.9% 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 314,149 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 179,771 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 127,078 (40.5%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 7,300 (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. 86,453 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 86,631 use a salt; 915 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
093,320
51.9%
178,496
43.7%
43
0.0%
58
0.0%
74,441
2.5%
86
0.0%
103,031
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50450
0.3%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com83,4290.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk40,987100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk19,806100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk8,392100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,7700%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,176100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,449100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,328100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,24363.1%63.1%
e-studio.dk1,65598.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,2980%0.0%
123hotel.dk714100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk597100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk51698.6%98.6%
hostonline.dk374100.0%100.0%
simpleagencygroup.dk371100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk370100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net353100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net31492.7%92.7%
yayhosting.dk31199.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk28582.5%100.0%
designrus.dk2510%0.0%
desec.io2400%0.0%
deic.dk2360%0.0%
eurodns.com2220%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). 115,342 of the 340,560 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 313 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

89,511 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
mb-solution.dk11 bytes
mb-ventilation.dk11 bytes
mbaagro.dk11 bytes
mbaccounting.dk11 bytes
mbackup.dk11 bytes
mbakolding.dk11 bytes
mbamba.dk11 bytes
mbang.dk11 bytes
mbangp.dk11 bytes
mbb.dk11 bytes
mbbr.dk11 bytes
mbcdk.dk11 bytes
mbchartering.dk11 bytes
mbchokolade.dk78 bytes
mbconsultants.dk11 bytes
mbcproductions.dk11 bytes
mbcregnskab.dk11 bytes
mbea.dk11 bytes
mbeconsulting.dk11 bytes
mberisha.dk11 bytes
mbestate.dk11 bytes
mbfood.dk11 bytes
mbfugtteknik.dk11 bytes
mbga.dk11 bytes
mbh.dk11 bytes
mbhservice.dk11 bytes
mbillet.dk11 bytes
mbj.dk78 bytes
mbkaraoke.dk11 bytes
mbl-consulting.dk11 bytes
mblanlæg.dk11 bytes
mbm-el.dk11 bytes
mbmbolig.dk11 bytes
mbminilease.dk11 bytes
mbnfliser.dk11 bytes
mbo-byggerådgivning.dk11 bytes
mbojer.dk11 bytes
mbom.dk11 bytes
mboraadgivning.dk11 bytes
mborg.dk11 bytes
mboyedinesen.dk78 bytes
mbpbyg.dk11 bytes
mbprojekt.dk11 bytes
mbrand.dk11 bytes
mbrevision.dk105 bytes
mbrose.dk11 bytes
mbrunsgaard.dk11 bytes
mbruun.dk11 bytes
mbs-partner.dk11 bytes
mbscan.dk11 bytes
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