🧮 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 538,036 domains probed so far (41.1% 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 360,647 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 205,918 (57.1%) use NSEC3, 146,417 (40.6%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 8,312 (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. 99,232 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 99,428 use a salt; 1,003 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0106,689
51.8%
190,256
43.8%
43
0.0%
59
0.0%
75,049
2.5%
87
0.0%
103,397
1.6%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50496
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com95,4560.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk47,092100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk22,791100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk9,715100.0%100.0%
hyp.net5,4270%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,605100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,826100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,599100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,57961.9%61.9%
e-studio.dk1,89598.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,4760%0.0%
123hotel.dk807100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk689100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk58598.5%98.5%
simpleagencygroup.dk431100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk427100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk423100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net406100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net35793.0%93.0%
yayhosting.dk35699.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk32483.0%100.0%
desec.io2720%0.0%
designrus.dk2600%0.0%
deic.dk2540%0.0%
eurodns.com2440%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). 132,870 of the 391,126 signed zones we asked (34.0%) publish them; 351 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
rønskøl.dk11 bytes
rønskøleteknik.dk11 bytes
røntved.dk11 bytes
rønvig.dk11 bytes
røpstorffvelvære.dk11 bytes
rørbyg.dk11 bytes
rørhatten.dk11 bytes
rørlæggeren.dk11 bytes
rørogbad.dk11 bytes
rørpropper.dk11 bytes
rørsgaard-estate.dk11 bytes
rørsgaardestate.dk11 bytes
rørslev.dk11 bytes
rørt.dk11 bytes
rørvigantik.dk11 bytes
rørvigbadehotel.dk11 bytes
rørvigismejeri.dk11 bytes
rørvigstrandhotel.dk11 bytes
rørvigteater.dk11 bytes
rørvin.dk11 bytes
røschke.dk11 bytes
røslingsmadunivers.dk11 bytes
røsnæs.dk11 bytes
røsnæsvinfestival.dk11 bytes
røver.dk11 bytes
røvognøgler.dk11 bytes
rüdinger.dk11 bytes
rüth.dk11 bytes
rützou.dk11 bytes
s-1.dk11 bytes
s-10.dk11 bytes
s-b-as.dk11 bytes
s-b-g.dk11 bytes
s-bach.dk11 bytes
s-bjerget.dk11 bytes
s-c.dk11 bytes
s-carelink.dk11 bytes
s-con.dk11 bytes
s-d.dk11 bytes
s-designodense.dk11 bytes
s-e-k.dk11 bytes
s-e.dk11 bytes
s-ea.dk11 bytes
s-elektivmutisme.dk11 bytes
s-ent.dk11 bytes
s-fac.dk11 bytes
s-faktor.dk11 bytes
s-g-i.dk11 bytes
s-grafisk.dk11 bytes
s-jensen.dk78 bytes
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