🧮 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 568,867 domains probed so far (43.5% 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 381,755 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 217,609 (57.0%) use NSEC3, 155,370 (40.7%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 8,776 (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. 104,891 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 105,104 use a salt; 1,054 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0112,727
51.8%
195,542
43.9%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
75,304
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,501
1.6%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50520
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com100,8860.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk49,811100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk24,161100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk10,263100.0%100.0%
hyp.net5,7360%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,816100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,019100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,70661.8%61.8%
sitnet.dk2,661100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk1,99898.1%98.1%
loopia.se1,5520%0.0%
123hotel.dk851100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk727100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk61098.4%98.4%
simpleagencygroup.dk463100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk459100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk450100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net428100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net37893.1%93.1%
yayhosting.dk37399.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk34383.4%100.0%
desec.io2890%0.0%
deic.dk2630%0.0%
designrus.dk2620%0.0%
eurodns.com2530%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). 141,045 of the 414,056 signed zones we asked (34.1%) publish them; 373 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
mfavmr.dk106 bytes
mfbyg.dk11 bytes
mfchristianshavnerfærgen.dk11 bytes
mfdv.dk11 bytes
mfec.dk11 bytes
mfeh.dk11 bytes
mfenn.dk11 bytes
mfer.dk11 bytes
mff-dk.dk11 bytes
mffi.dk11 bytes
mfgk-kids.dk11 bytes
mfgk.dk11 bytes
mfhmadsen.dk78 bytes
mfinish.dk11 bytes
mfjp.dk11 bytes
mfjv.dk11 bytes
mfknafgoerelser.dk1012 bytes
mflavours.dk11 bytes
mflf.dk104 bytes
mflow.dk11 bytes
mfmfrisør.dk11 bytes
mfond.dk11 bytes
mfpe.dk11 bytes
mfpeng.dk11 bytes
mfpengineering.dk11 bytes
mfpi.dk11 bytes
mfrational.dk11 bytes
mfrk.dk11 bytes
mfrvaccination.dk101 bytes
mfsecurity.dk11 bytes
mfsecuritysolutions.dk11 bytes
mfvestergaard.dk11 bytes
mfvm.dk108 bytes
mg-apps.dk11 bytes
mg-autocare.dk11 bytes
mg-bogføring.dk78 bytes
mg-engines.dk11 bytes
mg-entreprenor.dk11 bytes
mg-maler.dk11 bytes
mgaard16.dk11 bytes
mgbnord.dk11 bytes
mgbresson.dk78 bytes
mgbyg.dk11 bytes
mgc-design.dk11 bytes
mgc-ejendomme.dk11 bytes
mgclean.dk11 bytes
mgconstruction.dk11 bytes
mgconsult.dk11 bytes
mgd.dk11 bytes
mgdnordic.dk11 bytes
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