🧮 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

96,010 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
mørkenborgkro.dk11 bytes
mørkøre.dk11 bytes
mørkøvconsult.dk11 bytes
mørtelmaster.dk11 bytes
møss.dk11 bytes
møttz.dk11 bytes
mühlbrand.dk11 bytes
münter.dk11 bytes
mütze.dk11 bytes
n-bronx.dk11 bytes
n-construction.dk11 bytes
n-dyn.dk78 bytes
n-e-ringsted.dk78 bytes
n-e.dk11 bytes
n-el.dk11 bytes
n-fynbo.dk11 bytes
n-joerner.dk11 bytes
n-madsen.dk11 bytes
n-n.dk11 bytes
n-o-h.dk11 bytes
n-tag.dk11 bytes
n-u.dk11 bytes
n-v-v.dk11 bytes
n-vv.dk11 bytes
n00bs.dk11 bytes
n0reply.dk11 bytes
n22.dk11 bytes
n2t.dk11 bytes
n37.dk11 bytes
n59.dk11 bytes
na-erhverv.dk11 bytes
na-multibyg.dk11 bytes
naaijen.dk78 bytes
naandan.dk11 bytes
naarkroppentaler.dk11 bytes
naarskade.dk11 bytes
naax.dk11 bytes
nabocenter.dk11 bytes
nabochikane.dk11 bytes
naboejendomme.dk11 bytes
naboens.dk11 bytes
naboensgartner.dk11 bytes
naboensvinduespudser.dk11 bytes
nabohegn.dk11 bytes
nabokald.dk11 bytes
naboknald.dk11 bytes
naboloppen.dk11 bytes
nabosikring.dk11 bytes
naboskabet.dk11 bytes
naboskel.dk11 bytes
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