🧮 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
srhansen.dk11 bytes
srns.dk78 bytes
srp-viden.dk11 bytes
srs.dk11 bytes
srts.dk508 bytes
srvest.dk11 bytes
ss10.dk11 bytes
ssautomobiler.dk11 bytes
ssbarbershop.dk11 bytes
ssbeton.dk11 bytes
ssbyggeservice.dk11 bytes
sscaarhus.dk11 bytes
ssconsulting.dk11 bytes
ssd-engineering.dk11 bytes
ssdk.dk11 bytes
ssdr.dk11 bytes
ssecurity.dk11 bytes
ssef.dk11 bytes
ssehested.dk11 bytes
ssen.dk11 bytes
sseschmidt.dk78 bytes
ssgf.dk11 bytes
ssgnrx.dk11 bytes
ssh-biler.dk11 bytes
sshbiler.dk11 bytes
ssi-group.dk11 bytes
ssi.dk1013 bytes
ssid.dk11 bytes
ssidiagnostica.dk11 bytes
ssilab.dk109 bytes
ssiprod.dk107 bytes
ssk.dk78 bytes
sskantinekort.dk11 bytes
sslarsen.dk11 bytes
ssldl.dk11 bytes
sslproxy.dk11 bytes
sslvpn.dk11 bytes
ssmartha.dk78 bytes
sso-it.dk11 bytes
ssob.dk11 bytes
ssoit.dk11 bytes
ssok.dk11 bytes
sson.dk11 bytes
ssop.dk11 bytes
ssp-guldborgsund.dk11 bytes
ssp-randers.dk11 bytes
ssp-tid.dk11 bytes
sspaabenraa.dk11 bytes
ssph.dk11 bytes
sspmiddelfart.dk11 bytes
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