🧮 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 599,720 domains probed so far (45.9% 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 402,963 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 229,258 (56.9%) use NSEC3, 164,526 (40.8%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 9,179 (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. 110,609 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 110,825 use a salt; 1,094 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0118,658
51.8%
1100,961
44.0%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
75,533
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,536
1.5%
125
0.0%
141
0.0%
209
0.0%
217
0.0%
50543
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com106,2630.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk52,626100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk25,537100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk10,878100.0%100.0%
hyp.net6,0360%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,013100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,198100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,83661.6%61.6%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,07798.1%98.1%
loopia.se1,6310%0.0%
123hotel.dk902100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk759100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk64498.4%98.4%
simpleagencygroup.dk489100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk484100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk478100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net451100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net39892.5%92.5%
yayhosting.dk39099.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk36383.5%100.0%
desec.io3110%0.0%
deic.dk2650%0.0%
designrus.dk2640%0.0%
eurodns.com2540%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). 149,359 of the 437,089 signed zones we asked (34.2%) publish them; 396 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
sb-entreprise.dk11 bytes
sb-gulvservice.dk11 bytes
sb-h.dk11 bytes
sb-kloak.dk11 bytes
sb-lindgaard.dk11 bytes
sb-maler.dk11 bytes
sb-pork.dk11 bytes
sb-s.dk11 bytes
sb-silkeborg.dk11 bytes
sb-skanderborg.dk11 bytes
sb-technologies.dk11 bytes
sb-thomsen.dk11 bytes
sb1.dk11 bytes
sb2.dk11 bytes
sb26.dk78 bytes
sbakmann.dk11 bytes
sbalslev.dk11 bytes
sbanke.dk11 bytes
sbassurance.dk11 bytes
sbbiler.dk11 bytes
sbbrandt.dk78 bytes
sbbutik.dk11 bytes
sbbutikken.dk11 bytes
sbbyg.dk11 bytes
sbchristensen.dk11 bytes
sbcmaler.dk11 bytes
sbdk.dk11 bytes
sbel-automatik.dk11 bytes
sbennedsen.dk78 bytes
sbf-projekt.dk11 bytes
sbfgrid.dk11 bytes
sbfm.dk11 bytes
sbfodterapi.dk11 bytes
sbgas.dk11 bytes
sbgejendomme.dk11 bytes
sbgh.dk11 bytes
sbh-14.dk11 bytes
sbh-boformer.dk11 bytes
sbherning.dk11 bytes
sbhobro.dk11 bytes
sbit.dk11 bytes
sbj-teknik.dk11 bytes
sbjadministration.dk11 bytes
sblogistik.dk11 bytes
sbmconsult.dk11 bytes
sbmi.dk11 bytes
sbn-biler.dk11 bytes
sbnbiler.dk11 bytes
sbnk.dk11 bytes
sbonordic.dk11 bytes
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