🧮 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 1,022,196 domains probed so far (78.1% 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 698,135 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 376,439 (53.9%) use NSEC3, 307,198 (44.0%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 14,498 (2.1%) 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. 181,392 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 181,736 use a salt; 1,568 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0195,054
51.8%
1167,903
44.6%
43
0.0%
513
0.0%
78,701
2.3%
810
0.0%
103,915
1.0%
126
0.0%
132
0.0%
141
0.0%
2016
0.0%
2116
0.0%
50807
0.2%
991
0.0%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com173,8930.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk87,390100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk42,152100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk18,073100.0%100.0%
hyp.net9,7980%0.0%
wannafind.dk6,621100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk5,238100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk4,54761.7%61.7%
loopia.se3,2690%0.0%
e-studio.dk3,25798.3%98.3%
sitnet.dk2,664100.0%100.0%
123hotel.dk1,434100.0%100.0%
punktum.dk1,40245.3%45.3%
aveo.dk1,275100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk1,00398.7%98.7%
simpleagencygroup.dk838100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk784100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net754100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk694100.0%100.0%
desec.io6300.2%0.0%
yayhosting.dk60999.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk59287.8%100.0%
azehosting.net59191.7%91.7%
web-solutions.dk4650%0.0%
podi.dk367100.0%100.0%

🔄 CDS / CDNSKEY (automated DS updates)

CDS and CDNSKEY records let a DNS operator hand key rollovers to the registry automatically (RFC 7344/8078). 280,472 of the 753,724 signed zones we asked (37.2%) publish them; 629 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
amero-shop.dk11 bytes
amero.dk11 bytes
amerodev.dk11 bytes
amerogschwartz.dk11 bytes
ameroservices.dk11 bytes
ameroshop.dk11 bytes
ametsisshop.dk11 bytes
ameyer.dk11 bytes
amff.dk109 bytes
amfh.dk11 bytes
amfibios.dk78 bytes
amflyt.dk11 bytes
amfuglsang.dk11 bytes
amgentofte.dk11 bytes
amggulve.dk11 bytes
amh-bolig.dk11 bytes
amhandel-gmbh.dk11 bytes
amhavepleje.dk11 bytes
amhbolig.dk11 bytes
amhj.dk11 bytes
amhmurer.dk11 bytes
amhs-teknik.dk11 bytes
ami.dk102 bytes
amiami.dk11 bytes
amicatours.dk11 bytes
amici.dk11 bytes
amicisvej.dk11 bytes
amid.dk107 bytes
amigopizzeria.dk11 bytes
amigos-pizza.dk11 bytes
amigosgørlev.dk11 bytes
amigosvvs.dk18 bytes
amigotravels.dk11 bytes
aminahtonnsen.dk11 bytes
aminograss.dk11 bytes
aminojern.dk11 bytes
amiro.dk11 bytes
amisi.dk11 bytes
amisia.dk11 bytes
amivo.dk18 bytes
amjad.dk11 bytes
amjak.dk11 bytes
amjgruppen.dk11 bytes
amjustesen.dk11 bytes
amk-historisk.dk11 bytes
amkas.dk11 bytes
amkom.dk1010 bytes
amkurser.dk11 bytes
amlearninglab.dk11 bytes
amled.dk11 bytes
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