🧮 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 599,720 domains probed so far (45.9% 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 402,963 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 229,258 (56.9%) use NSEC3, 164,526 (40.8%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 9,179 (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. 110,609 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 110,825 use a salt; 1,094 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0118,658
51.8%
1100,961
44.0%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
75,533
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,536
1.5%
125
0.0%
141
0.0%
209
0.0%
217
0.0%
50543
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com106,2630.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk52,626100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk25,537100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk10,878100.0%100.0%
hyp.net6,0360%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,013100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,198100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,83661.6%61.6%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,07798.1%98.1%
loopia.se1,6310%0.0%
123hotel.dk902100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk759100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk64498.4%98.4%
simpleagencygroup.dk489100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk484100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk478100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net451100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net39892.5%92.5%
yayhosting.dk39099.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk36383.5%100.0%
desec.io3110%0.0%
deic.dk2650%0.0%
designrus.dk2640%0.0%
eurodns.com2540%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). 149,359 of the 437,089 signed zones we asked (34.2%) publish them; 396 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
3p-coaching.dk11 bytes
3pgroup.dk11 bytes
3pholding.dk11 bytes
3plaw.dk11 bytes
3pm.dk11 bytes
3pro.dk11 bytes
3putt.dk11 bytes
3på3.dk11 bytes
3rcenter.dk108 bytes
3rcentre.dk101 bytes
3rkrone.dk11 bytes
3s-ig.dk11 bytes
3s-pladen.dk11 bytes
3s-plader.dk11 bytes
3s.dk11 bytes
3sdm.dk11 bytes
3senergi.dk11 bytes
3sfinans.dk11 bytes
3skoennedage.dk11 bytes
3stepit-debitor.dk11 bytes
3tech-group.dk11 bytes
3tg.dk11 bytes
3tn.dk11 bytes
3tow.dk11 bytes
3tracking.dk11 bytes
3trinned.dk11 bytes
3trinnedshop.dk11 bytes
3tv.dk78 bytes
3v3soccer.dk11 bytes
3vial.dk11 bytes
3x.dk11 bytes
3x34-fyn.dk11 bytes
3x34-odense.dk11 bytes
3x50.dk11 bytes
3xe.dk11 bytes
3xl.dk11 bytes
3xp.dk11 bytes
3øer.dk11 bytes
4-food.dk108 bytes
4-star-hotel-copenhagen.dk11 bytes
4-stjernet-hotel-københavn.dk11 bytes
400kr.dk11 bytes
40115033.dk11 bytes
40144500.dk11 bytes
40153960.dk11 bytes
40184750.dk11 bytes
402.dk108 bytes
4022.dk11 bytes
40273926.dk11 bytes
40302010.dk11 bytes
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