🧮 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
oxiliosparring.dk11 bytes
oxite.dk11 bytes
oxogko.dk11 bytes
oxus.dk11 bytes
oxving.dk11 bytes
oxygen.dk11 bytes
oxygenservice.dk11 bytes
oxygone.dk78 bytes
oxygreen.dk11 bytes
oxytocin.dk78 bytes
oy-ugo.dk11 bytes
oyedl.dk11 bytes
oymux.dk11 bytes
oyogu.dk11 bytes
oyoymini.dk11 bytes
oyoyzoo.dk11 bytes
oysterestate.dk11 bytes
oysterinvest.dk11 bytes
oz1akn.dk78 bytes
oz1anj.dk11 bytes
oz1dis.dk78 bytes
oz1tbc.dk11 bytes
oz2bkj.dk11 bytes
oz2lrx.dk11 bytes
oz2sf.dk11 bytes
oz6frs.dk11 bytes
oz6js.dk11 bytes
ozaki.dk11 bytes
ozbeklogistics.dk11 bytes
ozganic.dk11 bytes
oziway.dk11 bytes
ozjuvel.dk11 bytes
ozkonyakebab.dk11 bytes
ozon.dk11 bytes
ozshop.dk11 bytes
ozz.dk78 bytes
ozzybase.dk11 bytes
ozzymex.dk11 bytes
p-51.dk78 bytes
p-bolvig.dk11 bytes
p-bule.dk11 bytes
p-buler.dk11 bytes
p-bøde.dk11 bytes
p-c-care.dk11 bytes
p-f-f.dk11 bytes
p-guide.dk11 bytes
p-husetamagerstrandpark.dk11 bytes
p-inc.dk11 bytes
p-koldsoe.dk11 bytes
p-light.dk11 bytes
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