🧮 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 613,869 domains probed so far (46.9% 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 412,617 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 234,401 (56.8%) use NSEC3, 168,858 (40.9%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 9,358 (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. 113,137 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 113,357 use a salt; 1,116 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0121,273
51.7%
1103,343
44.1%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
75,652
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,551
1.5%
125
0.0%
141
0.0%
209
0.0%
217
0.0%
50551
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com108,6220.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk53,881100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk26,133100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk11,125100.0%100.0%
hyp.net6,1800%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,104100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,264100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,89061.6%61.6%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,12398.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,6590%0.0%
123hotel.dk925100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk773100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk66398.5%98.5%
simpleagencygroup.dk507100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk498100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk489100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net467100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net40692.6%92.6%
yayhosting.dk39499.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk37683.8%100.0%
desec.io3230%0.0%
deic.dk2670%0.0%
designrus.dk2650%0.0%
eurodns.com2550%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). 153,283 of the 447,585 signed zones we asked (34.2%) publish them; 406 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
40144500.dk11 bytes
40153960.dk11 bytes
40184750.dk11 bytes
402.dk108 bytes
4022.dk11 bytes
40273926.dk11 bytes
40302010.dk11 bytes
4040.dk11 bytes
40541333.dk11 bytes
40607000.dk11 bytes
40615557.dk78 bytes
4097.dk11 bytes
40978787.dk11 bytes
40dageforlivet.dk11 bytes
40fit.dk11 bytes
4100anatolia.dk11 bytes
41105307.dk11 bytes
416tatanka.dk11 bytes
417.dk11 bytes
421.dk78 bytes
42363947.dk11 bytes
42412429.dk11 bytes
42461111.dk11 bytes
428.dk11 bytes
42fish.dk11 bytes
42fisk.dk11 bytes
42invest.dk11 bytes
42skat.dk11 bytes
42tax.dk11 bytes
4301.dk78 bytes
43331660.dk11 bytes
43450203.dk11 bytes
43542160.dk11 bytes
43731030.dk11 bytes
43900018.dk11 bytes
4399.dk11 bytes
43994399.dk11 bytes
43b.dk11 bytes
43c.dk11 bytes
440.dk11 bytes
4411.dk11 bytes
4432.dk11 bytes
44483838.dk11 bytes
44533311.dk11 bytes
44536622.dk11 bytes
44618419.dk78 bytes
44655443.dk11 bytes
44944848.dk11 bytes
454.dk11 bytes
45424211.dk11 bytes
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