🧮 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 872,264 domains probed so far (66.7% 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 590,994 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 324,964 (55.0%) use NSEC3, 253,405 (42.9%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 12,625 (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. 156,605 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 156,902 use a salt; 1,434 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0168,360
51.8%
1144,449
44.5%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
77,631
2.3%
88
0.0%
103,793
1.2%
125
0.0%
132
0.0%
141
0.0%
2013
0.0%
2113
0.0%
50677
0.2%
991
0.0%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com150,4110.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk75,440100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk36,329100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk15,648100.0%100.0%
hyp.net8,5980%0.0%
wannafind.dk5,744100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk4,488100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,92861.6%61.6%
e-studio.dk2,88198.2%98.2%
loopia.se2,8150%0.0%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
123hotel.dk1,264100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk1,082100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk89098.9%98.9%
simpleagencygroup.dk711100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk671100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net653100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk642100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk53499.6%99.6%
azehosting.net53192.7%92.7%
dnsadmin.dk52286.4%100.0%
desec.io4600%0.0%
web-solutions.dk4030%0.0%
eurodns.com3030%0.0%
podi.dk301100.0%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). 230,575 of the 639,776 signed zones we asked (36.0%) publish them; 554 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
arttogo.dk11 bytes
arttrail.dk11 bytes
arttray.dk11 bytes
arttrays.dk11 bytes
artunlimited.dk11 bytes
artver.dk11 bytes
artverks.dk11 bytes
artzifartzi.dk11 bytes
artzon.dk11 bytes
arufa.dk11 bytes
arum.dk11 bytes
arundathi.dk11 bytes
arupkirke.dk11 bytes
arva.dk11 bytes
arvad-finans.dk11 bytes
arvad-invest.dk11 bytes
arvad-privat.dk11 bytes
arvad5.dk11 bytes
arvadfinanshus.dk11 bytes
arve.dk11 bytes
arveadvokaten.dk11 bytes
arveadvokaterne.dk11 bytes
arvedsenoghassert.dk11 bytes
arveprinsessen.dk11 bytes
arverbe.dk11 bytes
arvesager.dk11 bytes
arvesagsadvokat.dk11 bytes
arvidsson.dk11 bytes
arvingen.dk11 bytes
arvion.dk11 bytes
arvlution.dk11 bytes
arvoe.dk78 bytes
arvon.dk11 bytes
arwio.dk88 bytes
as-domain.dk11 bytes
as-events.dk11 bytes
as-kcc.dk11 bytes
as-service.dk11 bytes
as-trup.dk11 bytes
as22.dk11 bytes
as7.dk11 bytes
as90.dk11 bytes
asa-thor.dk11 bytes
asa-tor.dk11 bytes
asaa-auto.dk11 bytes
asaa-autogenbrug.dk11 bytes
asaaskilte.dk11 bytes
asagroup.dk11 bytes
asah-xc.dk11 bytes
asainvest.dk11 bytes
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