🧮 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

90,760 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
vk-karup.dk11 bytes
vk-stillads.dk11 bytes
vkbiler.dk11 bytes
vkbs.dk11 bytes
vkbyg.dk11 bytes
vkbygogrenovering.dk11 bytes
vkdata.dk11 bytes
vkdt.dk508 bytes
vkemhaetter.dk11 bytes
vkh-kirker.dk11 bytes
vklinvest.dk11 bytes
vkonline.dk11 bytes
vkri.dk11 bytes
vkservice.dk11 bytes
vkshost.dk11 bytes
vksmede.dk11 bytes
vktd.dk11 bytes
vkvvs.dk11 bytes
vladtepish.dk11 bytes
vlak.dk11 bytes
vlark.dk11 bytes
vlasman.dk11 bytes
vlast.dk11 bytes
vldyr.dk11 bytes
vlg.dk11 bytes
vlindenberg.dk11 bytes
vlot.dk11 bytes
vlvschmidt.dk11 bytes
vm-elektro.dk11 bytes
vm-grossisten.dk11 bytes
vm-mad.dk11 bytes
vm-madhus.dk11 bytes
vm26.dk11 bytes
vmar.dk11 bytes
vmas.dk11 bytes
vmauto.dk11 bytes
vmb.dk11 bytes
vmbiogas.dk11 bytes
vmceentreprise.dk11 bytes
vmcms.dk11 bytes
vmentor.dk11 bytes
vmevent.dk11 bytes
vmgd.dk11 bytes
vmhauto.dk11 bytes
vmhgruppen.dk11 bytes
vmjmarketing.dk11 bytes
vmm.dk11 bytes
vmmad.dk11 bytes
vmmadhus.dk11 bytes
vmmoertel.dk11 bytes
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