🧮 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 894,745 domains probed so far (68.4% 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 606,831 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 331,853 (54.7%) use NSEC3, 262,130 (43.2%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 12,848 (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. 159,807 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 160,112 use a salt; 1,463 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0172,046
51.8%
1147,454
44.4%
43
0.0%
512
0.0%
77,789
2.3%
88
0.0%
103,815
1.1%
125
0.0%
132
0.0%
141
0.0%
2013
0.0%
2114
0.0%
50691
0.2%
991
0.0%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com153,4090.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk76,943100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk37,065100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk15,942100.0%100.0%
hyp.net8,7500%0.0%
wannafind.dk5,836100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk4,574100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk4,02061.8%61.8%
loopia.se2,9970%0.0%
e-studio.dk2,93598.3%98.3%
sitnet.dk2,661100.0%100.0%
123hotel.dk1,292100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk1,104100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk90698.9%98.9%
simpleagencygroup.dk729100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk692100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net669100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk655100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net54592.5%92.5%
punktum.dk53945.8%45.8%
yayhosting.dk53999.6%99.6%
dnsadmin.dk52586.5%100.0%
desec.io4760%0.0%
web-solutions.dk4260%0.0%
podi.dk314100.0%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). 238,549 of the 656,599 signed zones we asked (36.3%) publish them; 561 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
appservice.dk11 bytes
appshield.dk11 bytes
appsinvention.dk11 bytes
appspeople.dk18 bytes
appspremiumtest.dk18 bytes
appsych.dk11 bytes
appsyk.dk11 bytes
appsykologi.dk11 bytes
appt.dk11 bytes
appteam.dk11 bytes
apptek.dk11 bytes
apptising.dk11 bytes
apptown.dk11 bytes
appv.dk11 bytes
appvicer.dk11 bytes
appvokat.dk11 bytes
appwareventure.dk11 bytes
appweb.dk11 bytes
apqp4wind.dk11 bytes
apraise.dk11 bytes
aprc.dk11 bytes
apricofashion.dk11 bytes
aprilclog.dk11 bytes
aprilsol.dk78 bytes
aprodanmark.dk11 bytes
aprojekt.dk11 bytes
aprokom.dk11 bytes
apropolis.dk11 bytes
aproposkunst.dk18 bytes
aproposmig.dk11 bytes
aproposweb.dk11 bytes
aps-enterprise.dk11 bytes
apset.dk11 bytes
apstaal.dk11 bytes
apstål.dk11 bytes
apsv.dk11 bytes
aptaps.dk11 bytes
aptocollection.dk11 bytes
aptoit.dk11 bytes
aptoplus.dk11 bytes
aptotal.dk11 bytes
aptp.dk11 bytes
apts.dk11 bytes
aptul.dk11 bytes
apunkt.dk11 bytes
apusdenmark.dk11 bytes
apvdrift.dk11 bytes
apvmtu.dk11 bytes
apvogmtu.dk11 bytes
apvplus.dk11 bytes
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