🧮 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 468,858 domains probed so far (35.9% 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 314,149 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 179,771 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 127,078 (40.5%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 7,300 (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. 86,453 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 86,631 use a salt; 915 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
093,320
51.9%
178,496
43.7%
43
0.0%
58
0.0%
74,441
2.5%
86
0.0%
103,031
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50450
0.3%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com83,4290.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk40,987100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk19,806100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk8,392100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,7700%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,176100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,449100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,328100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,24363.1%63.1%
e-studio.dk1,65598.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,2980%0.0%
123hotel.dk714100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk597100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk51698.6%98.6%
hostonline.dk374100.0%100.0%
simpleagencygroup.dk371100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk370100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net353100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net31492.7%92.7%
yayhosting.dk31199.7%99.7%
dnsadmin.dk28582.5%100.0%
designrus.dk2510%0.0%
desec.io2400%0.0%
deic.dk2360%0.0%
eurodns.com2220%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). 115,342 of the 340,560 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 313 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

89,509 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
viumkirke.dk11 bytes
viva-doner.dk11 bytes
vivabolig.dk11 bytes
vivadanmark.dk11 bytes
vivaenergi.dk11 bytes
vivago.dk11 bytes
vivaholm.dk11 bytes
vivaldisvej.dk11 bytes
vivamix.dk124 bytes
vivan.dk11 bytes
vivaposter.dk11 bytes
vivasol.dk11 bytes
vivavintage.dk11 bytes
vivavitre.dk11 bytes
vive.dk107 bytes
vivellijewellery.dk11 bytes
viveof.dk11 bytes
vivesters.dk11 bytes
vivet.dk11 bytes
vivi.dk11 bytes
vivianskovbjerg.dk11 bytes
vivikier.dk11 bytes
vivildlægehus.dk11 bytes
vivisbutik.dk11 bytes
vivocore.dk11 bytes
vivodental.dk11 bytes
vivogroup.dk11 bytes
vivohealthy.dk11 bytes
vivoroots.dk11 bytes
vivosund.dk11 bytes
vivotime.dk11 bytes
vivov.dk11 bytes
vivovikar.dk11 bytes
vivovin.dk11 bytes
vivovino.dk11 bytes
vivowine.dk11 bytes
vivs.dk11 bytes
vizdev.dk11 bytes
vizionpeople.dk11 bytes
vizzlegeland.dk11 bytes
vjj-fakt.dk11 bytes
vjj.dk11 bytes
vjkrantransport.dk11 bytes
vjmphp.dk11 bytes
vjohnsen.dk11 bytes
vjr-teknik.dk11 bytes
vjsdans.dk11 bytes
vjt.dk78 bytes
vjte.dk11 bytes
vk-data.dk11 bytes
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