🧮 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 447,609 domains probed so far (34.2% 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 300,065 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 171,841 (57.3%) use NSEC3, 121,273 (40.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 6,951 (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. 82,660 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 82,836 use a salt; 878 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
089,199
51.9%
175,084
43.7%
43
0.0%
57
0.0%
74,226
2.5%
86
0.0%
102,898
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50425
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com79,7110.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk39,210100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk18,946100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk8,026100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,5730%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,049100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,341100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,230100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,14463.2%63.2%
e-studio.dk1,57798.4%98.4%
loopia.se1,2390%0.0%
123hotel.dk678100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk573100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk48798.6%98.6%
simpleagencygroup.dk355100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk352100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk350100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net340100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk29499.7%99.7%
azehosting.net29092.1%92.1%
dnsadmin.dk27182.7%100.0%
designrus.dk2490%0.0%
desec.io2260%0.0%
deic.dk2230%0.0%
eurodns.com2170%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). 110,094 of the 325,229 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 294 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

83,337 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
tblcargo.dk78 bytes
tbmgroup.dk11 bytes
tbmsales.dk11 bytes
tbnteknikmontage.dk11 bytes
tboconsult.dk11 bytes
tbpresentation.dk11 bytes
tbrev.dk11 bytes
tbsas.dk11 bytes
tbsaskildrup.dk11 bytes
tbsevent.dk11 bytes
tbsfyn.dk11 bytes
tbsholstebro.dk11 bytes
tbski.dk11 bytes
tbst.dk1013 bytes
tbt-group.dk11 bytes
tbt-tag.dk11 bytes
tbttag.dk11 bytes
tbwacph.dk11 bytes
tc-brod.dk11 bytes
tc-care.dk11 bytes
tc-ejendom.dk11 bytes
tc-ejendomme.dk11 bytes
tc-el.dk11 bytes
tc-haderslev.dk11 bytes
tcb2000.dk11 bytes
tcbs.dk11 bytes
tccd.dk11 bytes
tcgalley.dk11 bytes
tcgruppen.dk11 bytes
tcgulveoggardiner.dk78 bytes
tchfit.dk11 bytes
tchh.dk78 bytes
tcholding.dk11 bytes
tchoukball.dk11 bytes
tcms.dk11 bytes
tcn.dk11 bytes
tcob.dk11 bytes
tcs-shop.dk78 bytes
tcsh.dk11 bytes
tcss.dk11 bytes
tcsshop.dk11 bytes
tcsystems.dk11 bytes
td-bogfoering.dk11 bytes
td-maegler.dk11 bytes
td-randers.dk11 bytes
tdbyggeri.dk11 bytes
tdc-alarmnet.dk11 bytes
tdc-if-aarhus.dk11 bytes
tdcerhvervpartner.dk11 bytes
tdcnetdesign.dk104 bytes
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