🧮 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

94,694 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
rby.dk11 bytes
rbyg.dk11 bytes
rc-beton.dk11 bytes
rc-ejendomme.dk11 bytes
rc21.dk11 bytes
rc2go.dk11 bytes
rc700.dk11 bytes
rca.dk11 bytes
rcatech.dk11 bytes
rcbeton.dk11 bytes
rccbackup.dk11 bytes
rcchosting.dk11 bytes
rccompany.dk11 bytes
rcdk.dk11 bytes
rcella.dk11 bytes
rcenter.dk11 bytes
rcenteret.dk11 bytes
rcflyvning.dk11 bytes
rcfun.dk78 bytes
rcglasogramme.dk11 bytes
rchitecture.dk11 bytes
rcmodels.dk11 bytes
rconsulting.dk11 bytes
rcoyalisten.dk11 bytes
rcs-vvs.dk11 bytes
rcsh.dk78 bytes
rcsport.dk11 bytes
rct-syd.dk11 bytes
rct-vest.dk11 bytes
rct-øst.dk11 bytes
rctransport.dk11 bytes
rcts.dk11 bytes
rcyc.dk11 bytes
rd-andersen.dk11 bytes
rd-aps.dk11 bytes
rd-design.dk11 bytes
rdahl.dk11 bytes
rdam.dk1014 bytes
rdbyg.dk11 bytes
rdelteknik.dk11 bytes
rdmt.dk11 bytes
rdohuset.dk11 bytes
rdp.dk11 bytes
rdskilte.dk11 bytes
rdv.dk11 bytes
re-art.dk11 bytes
re-bild.dk11 bytes
re-byg.dk11 bytes
re-claim.dk78 bytes
re-creation.dk78 bytes
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