🧮 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 488,343 domains probed so far (37.3% 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 327,182 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 187,094 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 132,521 (40.5%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 7,567 (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. 90,011 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 90,189 use a salt; 936 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
097,085
51.9%
181,781
43.7%
43
0.0%
58
0.0%
74,608
2.5%
87
0.0%
103,129
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50461
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com86,8130.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk42,702100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk20,656100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk8,736100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,9740%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,291100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,547100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,405100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,33562.8%62.8%
e-studio.dk1,72098.3%98.3%
loopia.se1,3500%0.0%
123hotel.dk737100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk627100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk53498.5%98.5%
simpleagencygroup.dk390100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk385100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk384100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net370100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net32993.0%93.0%
yayhosting.dk32299.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk30083.0%100.0%
designrus.dk2530%0.0%
desec.io2500%0.0%
deic.dk2380%0.0%
eurodns.com2260%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). 120,262 of the 354,723 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 328 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

90,761 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
uvseddeltesterpen.dk11 bytes
uvshoppen.dk11 bytes
uvsunbreaker.dk11 bytes
uwear.dk11 bytes
uwh.dk11 bytes
uwork.dk11 bytes
uwp.dk11 bytes
uwrsystem.dk11 bytes
uxor.dk11 bytes
uxplane.dk11 bytes
uze.dk11 bytes
uzonen.dk11 bytes
uzuhub.dk11 bytes
v-10.dk78 bytes
v-ar.dk11 bytes
v-cio.dk11 bytes
v-dyr.dk11 bytes
v-e.dk11 bytes
v-i-a.dk508 bytes
v-joergensen.dk11 bytes
v-munk.dk11 bytes
v-o-k.dk11 bytes
v-rs.dk11 bytes
v-s-d.dk11 bytes
v-s-g.dk11 bytes
v-v-v.dk11 bytes
v.dk11 bytes
v1v1.dk11 bytes
v297.dk11 bytes
v2r.dk78 bytes
v58.dk108 bytes
va-group.dk11 bytes
va-gruppen.dk11 bytes
va-moerk.dk11 bytes
va55.dk11 bytes
vaa.dk11 bytes
vaabenarsenalet.dk11 bytes
vaabenbasen.dk11 bytes
vaabenbutikken.dk11 bytes
vaabenoplevelser.dk11 bytes
vaabenskjold.dk11 bytes
vaagetjeneste-gribskov.dk11 bytes
vaagram.dk11 bytes
vabensmeden.dk11 bytes
vacation-in-copenhagen.dk11 bytes
vaccbluetongue.dk11 bytes
vaccibody.dk11 bytes
vaccinationcorona.dk11 bytes
vaccinationdk.dk11 bytes
vaccinationsguiden.dk11 bytes
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