🧮 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 645,609 domains probed so far (49.4% 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 434,448 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 246,099 (56.6%) use NSEC3, 178,545 (41.1%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 9,804 (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. 118,775 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 119,008 use a salt; 1,167 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0127,337
51.7%
1108,687
44.2%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
75,901
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,588
1.5%
125
0.0%
131
0.0%
141
0.0%
209
0.0%
218
0.0%
50561
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com114,0800.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk56,682100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk27,467100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk11,718100.0%100.0%
hyp.net6,5000%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,330100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,423100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,02161.6%61.6%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,20698.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,7540%0.0%
123hotel.dk970100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk802100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk68998.5%98.5%
simpleagencygroup.dk539100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk521100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk515100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net499100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net42592.2%92.2%
yayhosting.dk41599.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk40084.0%100.0%
desec.io3360%0.0%
deic.dk2670%0.0%
designrus.dk2670%0.0%
web-solutions.dk2650%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). 162,171 of the 471,214 signed zones we asked (34.4%) publish them; 432 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
5daysdeo.dk11 bytes
5e-byg.dk11 bytes
5ebyg.dk11 bytes
5fag.dk11 bytes
5flyttetilbud.dk11 bytes
5jkl.dk11 bytes
5kreative.dk11 bytes
5max.dk11 bytes
5net.dk11 bytes
5rytmer.dk11 bytes
5star.dk11 bytes
5stein.dk78 bytes
5styrker.dk11 bytes
5thule100.dk11 bytes
5tips.dk78 bytes
5um.dk11 bytes
5vip.dk78 bytes
6-10.dk11 bytes
6-7sundby.dk11 bytes
6-liv-med.dk11 bytes
6-livmed.dk11 bytes
600kr.dk11 bytes
60620253.dk11 bytes
60620263.dk11 bytes
60800900.dk11 bytes
60erklubben.dk78 bytes
60minutter.dk1012 bytes
60pudser.dk11 bytes
60secondsdance.dk11 bytes
60år.dk11 bytes
615.dk11 bytes
61722642.dk11 bytes
6206.dk11 bytes
62n.dk11 bytes
6300.dk78 bytes
63336363.dk11 bytes
6348366.dk11 bytes
64410064.dk11 bytes
64715020.dk11 bytes
65255000.dk11 bytes
65design.dk11 bytes
66146240.dk11 bytes
66180323.dk11 bytes
6630.dk11 bytes
6640.dk78 bytes
66north.dk11 bytes
66wenneke.dk11 bytes
67-69.dk11 bytes
6710abfoest.dk11 bytes
6862.dk78 bytes
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