🧮 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 734,565 domains probed so far (56.2% 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 496,012 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 278,633 (56.2%) use NSEC3, 206,389 (41.6%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 10,990 (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. 134,466 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 134,726 use a salt; 1,272 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0144,171
51.7%
1123,542
44.3%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
76,606
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,676
1.3%
125
0.0%
131
0.0%
141
0.0%
2010
0.0%
2111
0.0%
50603
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com129,2530.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk64,436100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk31,215100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk13,391100.0%100.0%
hyp.net7,3770%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,899100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,878100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,42861.4%61.4%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,46098.2%98.2%
loopia.se2,0130%0.0%
123hotel.dk1,093100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk918100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk78398.7%98.7%
simpleagencygroup.dk597100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk593100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk573100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net557100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net46992.3%92.3%
yayhosting.dk46199.6%99.6%
dnsadmin.dk44685.0%100.0%
desec.io3840%0.0%
web-solutions.dk2960%0.0%
designrus.dk2770%0.0%
deic.dk2710%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). 187,781 of the 537,859 signed zones we asked (34.9%) publish them; 480 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
bbdo.dk11 bytes
bbeauty.dk11 bytes
bbentreprenør.dk11 bytes
bbetter.dk11 bytes
bbfysioterapi.dk11 bytes
bbgruppen.dk11 bytes
bbgulve.dk108 bytes
bbh.dk11 bytes
bbhorse.dk11 bytes
bbhunting.dk11 bytes
bbilpleje.dk11 bytes
bbinvest.dk11 bytes
bbiren.dk11 bytes
bbj.dk11 bytes
bbjournal.dk11 bytes
bbk07.dk11 bytes
bbkaer.dk11 bytes
bblabels.dk11 bytes
bbm.dk11 bytes
bbmaler.dk11 bytes
bbmcon.dk11 bytes
bbmri.dk109 bytes
bbmtec.dk18 bytes
bbnielsen.dk11 bytes
bbnpost.dk11 bytes
bbnshoppen.dk11 bytes
bboberg.dk11 bytes
bboy.dk11 bytes
bbpconsult.dk11 bytes
bbq.dk11 bytes
bbqdonutboat.dk11 bytes
bbr-opmåling.dk11 bytes
bbr-tjeck.dk11 bytes
bbrens.dk11 bytes
bbsteptech.dk11 bytes
bbstudenterkorsel.dk11 bytes
bbsydbyen.dk78 bytes
bbtelte.dk11 bytes
bbtfiberoptik.dk11 bytes
bbtranslation.dk11 bytes
bbtranslations.dk11 bytes
bbv-agro.dk11 bytes
bbvej.dk11 bytes
bbvejle.dk11 bytes
bbvinduespolering.dk11 bytes
bbwebshop.dk11 bytes
bbwine.dk11 bytes
bbyv.dk11 bytes
bc-2.dk11 bytes
bc-accounting.dk11 bytes
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