🧮 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
70plus.dk11 bytes
7184.dk11 bytes
71997711.dk11 bytes
72425224.dk11 bytes
7300.dk11 bytes
73706092.dk11 bytes
73709092.dk11 bytes
737sim.dk11 bytes
737simulator.dk11 bytes
739.dk11 bytes
74423284.dk11 bytes
74471577.dk11 bytes
74662711.dk11 bytes
7470.dk78 bytes
749.dk11 bytes
74b.dk11 bytes
7512.dk11 bytes
75172722.dk11 bytes
75365222.dk11 bytes
75625022.dk11 bytes
75625201.dk11 bytes
75772020.dk11 bytes
75820361.dk11 bytes
75821900.dk11 bytes
75823700.dk11 bytes
75881888.dk11 bytes
75930460.dk11 bytes
75943900.dk11 bytes
767.dk11 bytes
768.dk78 bytes
7777.dk11 bytes
7879.dk78 bytes
7913ren.dk11 bytes
79306028.dk11 bytes
7av.dk11 bytes
7kabale.dk78 bytes
7kp.dk11 bytes
7x777.dk11 bytes
800kr.dk11 bytes
80300.dk11 bytes
80ari.dk11 bytes
80er-bar.dk11 bytes
80genstande.dk11 bytes
80s-bar.dk11 bytes
81346.dk11 bytes
819.dk11 bytes
82138260.dk11 bytes
8230autoservice.dk11 bytes
8240.dk78 bytes
8300odder.dk11 bytes
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