🧮 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 552,533 domains probed so far (42.2% 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 370,566 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 211,533 (57.1%) use NSEC3, 150,474 (40.6%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 8,559 (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. 101,917 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 102,124 use a salt; 1,034 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0109,624
51.8%
192,725
43.8%
43
0.0%
59
0.0%
75,174
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,484
1.6%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50510
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com98,0820.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk48,354100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk23,428100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk9,988100.0%100.0%
hyp.net5,5700%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,705100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,911100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,659100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,63762.0%62.0%
e-studio.dk1,94698.1%98.1%
loopia.se1,5190%0.0%
123hotel.dk829100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk708100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk59498.5%98.5%
simpleagencygroup.dk449100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk442100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk439100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net417100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net36892.9%92.9%
yayhosting.dk36499.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk33382.9%100.0%
desec.io2820%0.0%
deic.dk2630%0.0%
designrus.dk2620%0.0%
eurodns.com2510%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). 136,606 of the 401,901 signed zones we asked (34.0%) publish them; 363 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
nokeys.dk11 bytes
nokgodtnok.dk11 bytes
nola.dk11 bytes
nolde.dk78 bytes
nolfi.dk11 bytes
nolimitsdiving.dk11 bytes
nollin.dk11 bytes
nolsoe.dk11 bytes
nolsoebyg.dk11 bytes
noluck.dk11 bytes
nomaco.dk11 bytes
nomademaja.dk11 bytes
nomadsauna.dk78 bytes
nomea.dk11 bytes
nomeat.dk11 bytes
nomess.dk11 bytes
nomex.dk11 bytes
nomi4s.dk11 bytes
nomi4sservice.dk11 bytes
nomilktoday.dk11 bytes
nomusbrandsikring.dk11 bytes
nomé.dk11 bytes
noname.dk11 bytes
nonamecurators.dk11 bytes
nonbinary.dk1016 bytes
nondaters.dk11 bytes
nonfood.dk11 bytes
noniusdanmark.dk78 bytes
nonsmoker.dk11 bytes
nonstopbio.dk11 bytes
noohra.dk11 bytes
noojins.dk11 bytes
nooke.dk11 bytes
noonoo.dk11 bytes
noorbriller.dk11 bytes
noorform.dk11 bytes
noormatch.dk11 bytes
noorsøm.dk11 bytes
noort.dk11 bytes
noorum.dk11 bytes
noovi.dk11 bytes
nop-betty.dk11 bytes
nopa.dk11 bytes
nopovin.dk11 bytes
noproduction.dk11 bytes
nopssss.dk11 bytes
nor-gaard.dk11 bytes
nor-site.dk11 bytes
nor21.dk11 bytes
nora-auto.dk78 bytes
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