🧮 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 488,343 domains probed so far (37.3% 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 327,182 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 187,094 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 132,521 (40.5%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 7,567 (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. 90,011 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 90,189 use a salt; 936 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
097,085
51.9%
181,781
43.7%
43
0.0%
58
0.0%
74,608
2.5%
87
0.0%
103,129
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50461
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com86,8130.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk42,702100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk20,656100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk8,736100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,9740%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,291100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,547100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,405100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,33562.8%62.8%
e-studio.dk1,72098.3%98.3%
loopia.se1,3500%0.0%
123hotel.dk737100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk627100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk53498.5%98.5%
simpleagencygroup.dk390100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk385100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk384100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net370100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net32993.0%93.0%
yayhosting.dk32299.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk30083.0%100.0%
designrus.dk2530%0.0%
desec.io2500%0.0%
deic.dk2380%0.0%
eurodns.com2260%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). 120,262 of the 354,723 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 328 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

91,940 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
nbftp.dk11 bytes
nbgade.dk11 bytes
nbhs.dk78 bytes
nbht.dk11 bytes
nbhudlejning.dk11 bytes
nbid.dk11 bytes
nbk-malerservice.dk11 bytes
nbm.dk11 bytes
nbpetersen.dk78 bytes
nbsm.dk11 bytes
nbstudio.dk11 bytes
nbtmail.dk11 bytes
nbu-center.dk11 bytes
nbvp.dk11 bytes
nc-e.dk11 bytes
nc-maerk.dk108 bytes
nc-mærk.dk101 bytes
nc-nielsen.dk11 bytes
nc3.dk11 bytes
ncapital.dk11 bytes
ncbservices.dk11 bytes
ncc-lasterapport.dk11 bytes
nccadministration.dk11 bytes
nccrapportering.dk11 bytes
ncec.dk11 bytes
ncf-corporate.dk108 bytes
ncfugeservice.dk11 bytes
nchestetransport.dk11 bytes
nchorsetransport.dk11 bytes
nchosting.dk11 bytes
ncis.dk11 bytes
ncjagt.dk11 bytes
nck.dk11 bytes
ncmaerk.dk106 bytes
ncmproject.dk11 bytes
ncmærk.dk109 bytes
ncngroup.dk11 bytes
ncnielsen.dk11 bytes
ncoreflex.dk11 bytes
ncover.dk11 bytes
nctc.dk11 bytes
ncy.dk11 bytes
nd-byg.dk11 bytes
nd-consult.dk11 bytes
nd-trading.dk11 bytes
ndas.dk78 bytes
ndate.dk11 bytes
ndbs.dk11 bytes
nddanmark.dk11 bytes
nddev.dk1010 bytes
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