🧮 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 806,472 domains probed so far (61.7% 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 545,199 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 303,738 (55.7%) use NSEC3, 229,575 (42.1%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 11,886 (2.2%) 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. 146,586 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 146,868 use a salt; 1,357 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0157,154
51.7%
1134,993
44.4%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
77,169
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,740
1.2%
125
0.0%
132
0.0%
141
0.0%
2011
0.0%
2112
0.0%
50636
0.2%
991
0.0%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com140,6900.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk70,411100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk34,000100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk14,663100.0%100.0%
hyp.net8,0420%0.0%
wannafind.dk5,376100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk4,208100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,71661.4%61.4%
e-studio.dk2,68098.2%98.2%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
loopia.se2,3970%0.0%
123hotel.dk1,192100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk1,012100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk84998.8%98.8%
simpleagencygroup.dk668100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk637100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net612100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk611100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk50799.6%99.6%
azehosting.net50092.6%92.6%
dnsadmin.dk48885.9%100.0%
desec.io4190%0.0%
web-solutions.dk3380%0.0%
podi.dk291100.0%100.0%
designrus.dk2840%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). 208,800 of the 590,832 signed zones we asked (35.3%) publish them; 518 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
axus-maritime.dk11 bytes
axus-nordic.dk11 bytes
axusmaritime.dk11 bytes
axusnordic.dk11 bytes
axworld.dk11 bytes
axxaindustries.dk11 bytes
axxess-acoustics.dk11 bytes
axxess-audio.dk11 bytes
axxon-license.dk11 bytes
ayab.dk11 bytes
ayama.dk11 bytes
ayanna.dk11 bytes
ayay.dk11 bytes
aycap-pension.dk11 bytes
aycappension.dk11 bytes
aycon.dk11 bytes
ayct.dk11 bytes
ayeaye.dk11 bytes
ayed.dk11 bytes
ayf.dk11 bytes
ayh.dk11 bytes
ayida.dk11 bytes
ayl.dk11 bytes
ayloholding.dk11 bytes
aynimethod.dk11 bytes
ayomi.dk11 bytes
ayubalance.dk18 bytes
ayuda.dk78 bytes
ayurvedahouse.dk78 bytes
ayurvedic-living.dk11 bytes
ayurvedicbeauty.dk78 bytes
ayus.dk11 bytes
az-bogholder.dk11 bytes
az-bogholderi.dk11 bytes
az-byg.dk11 bytes
az-isolering.dk11 bytes
az-skadedyr.dk11 bytes
az-tagteknik.dk11 bytes
az.dk11 bytes
azadtaxa.dk11 bytes
azalea.dk11 bytes
azbog.dk11 bytes
azbogholderi.dk11 bytes
azc.dk11 bytes
azecon.dk11 bytes
azehosting.dk78 bytes
azema.dk11 bytes
azienda.dk11 bytes
aziyacht.dk11 bytes
azk.dk11 bytes
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