🧮 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

89,466 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
mjlift.dk11 bytes
mjmboligbyg.dk11 bytes
mjmj.dk11 bytes
mjn-teknik.dk11 bytes
mjnaturpleje.dk78 bytes
mjod.dk11 bytes
mjolnerparken.dk11 bytes
mjopbyg.dk11 bytes
mjpb.dk11 bytes
mjpharma.dk11 bytes
mjplast.dk11 bytes
mjr-tømrer.dk11 bytes
mjreng.dk11 bytes
mjteknik.dk11 bytes
mjtoemrer.dk11 bytes
mjware.dk78 bytes
mjølnerbyg.dk11 bytes
mk-bogføring.dk11 bytes
mk-byg.dk11 bytes
mk-huse.dk11 bytes
mk-industri.dk11 bytes
mk2-huse.dk11 bytes
mkbh.dk11 bytes
mkbil.dk11 bytes
mkbolig.dk78 bytes
mkboligbyg.dk11 bytes
mkbygfyn.dk78 bytes
mkcb.dk11 bytes
mkentrepreneur.dk11 bytes
mkentreprenoer.dk11 bytes
mkentreprenor.dk11 bytes
mkentreprenør.dk11 bytes
mkf-toemrer.dk11 bytes
mkh-malerservice.dk11 bytes
mkh.dk78 bytes
mkhregnskab.dk11 bytes
mkhundetraening.dk11 bytes
mki-is.dk11 bytes
mkis.dk11 bytes
mkj.dk11 bytes
mkkitservice.dk11 bytes
mklservice.dk11 bytes
mkm.dk11 bytes
mkmail.dk11 bytes
mkmarine.dk11 bytes
mkmurerne.dk11 bytes
mknyby.dk78 bytes
mkordt.dk11 bytes
mkorgaard.dk11 bytes
mkpinteriør.dk11 bytes
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