🧮 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
45860406.dk11 bytes
45860664.dk11 bytes
45873415.dk11 bytes
45876006.dk11 bytes
4636.dk11 bytes
46664.dk11 bytes
46gradernord.dk78 bytes
48241200.dk11 bytes
48242240.dk11 bytes
48260177.dk11 bytes
48261701.dk11 bytes
48267999.dk11 bytes
48a.dk78 bytes
49193319.dk11 bytes
4960.dk11 bytes
49703831.dk11 bytes
4asics.dk11 bytes
4b-capital.dk11 bytes
4bcapital.dk11 bytes
4box.dk11 bytes
4cc.dk11 bytes
4dele.dk11 bytes
4dogjoy.dk11 bytes
4family.dk11 bytes
4feetunder.dk11 bytes
4food.dk108 bytes
4g.dk11 bytes
4gaarde.dk11 bytes
4gs.dk11 bytes
4heroes.dk11 bytes
4hjulscross.dk11 bytes
4hoje.dk11 bytes
4hunt.dk18 bytes
4innovation.dk11 bytes
4k5.dk11 bytes
4kloeverskoleogboernehus.dk11 bytes
4leth.dk11 bytes
4love2learn.dk11 bytes
4mail.dk78 bytes
4meaning.dk11 bytes
4moor.dk11 bytes
4mranch.dk11 bytes
4mx.dk11 bytes
4n-electric.dk11 bytes
4nais.dk11 bytes
4nmanpower.dk11 bytes
4nsolutions.dk11 bytes
4os.dk11 bytes
4see.dk11 bytes
4spaces.dk18 bytes
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