🧮 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

89,510 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
neye.dk11 bytes
neyefonden.dk11 bytes
nezam.dk11 bytes
nezhapetersen.dk11 bytes
nf-ejendomme.dk11 bytes
nf-engros.dk11 bytes
nf-erhverv.dk11 bytes
nfa.dk1010 bytes
nfa100.dk11 bytes
nfadministration.dk11 bytes
nfatrivsel.dk1013 bytes
nfbo.dk11 bytes
nfbyg.dk11 bytes
nfe.dk11 bytes
nff.dk11 bytes
nffleetflex.dk11 bytes
nffleetreleasing.dk11 bytes
nfg33.dk11 bytes
nfgk.dk11 bytes
nfhvidovre.dk11 bytes
nfib.dk11 bytes
nfinvest.dk11 bytes
nfit.dk11 bytes
nfksd.dk11 bytes
nfpmail.dk11 bytes
nfredsager.dk11 bytes
nfriuv.dk11 bytes
nfskytte.dk78 bytes
nft-aps.dk11 bytes
nftforeningen.dk11 bytes
ng-automobiler.dk11 bytes
ng-h.dk11 bytes
ngas.dk11 bytes
ngasoft.dk78 bytes
ngauto.dk11 bytes
ngf.dk101 bytes
nghf365.dk11 bytes
nghusum.dk11 bytes
ngi.dk11 bytes
ngifkoncertudvalg.dk11 bytes
ngkilde.dk11 bytes
ngmanagement.dk11 bytes
ngo-uddannelser.dk11 bytes
ngpindustriplast.dk11 bytes
ngpresearch.dk11 bytes
ngpretail.dk11 bytes
ngruppe.dk11 bytes
ngs.dk11 bytes
ngsound.dk11 bytes
ngteknik.dk11 bytes
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