🧮 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 660,993 domains probed so far (50.5% 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 445,078 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 251,791 (56.6%) use NSEC3, 183,261 (41.2%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 10,026 (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. 121,493 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 121,729 use a salt; 1,187 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0130,313
51.8%
1111,258
44.2%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
76,033
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,601
1.4%
125
0.0%
131
0.0%
141
0.0%
209
0.0%
218
0.0%
50570
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com116,7620.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk58,017100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk28,138100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk12,003100.0%100.0%
hyp.net6,6460%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,434100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,491100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,11461.5%61.5%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,24898.2%98.2%
loopia.se1,8000%0.0%
123hotel.dk986100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk820100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk69998.6%98.6%
simpleagencygroup.dk548100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk532100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk524100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net512100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net43492.4%92.4%
yayhosting.dk42299.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk40884.1%100.0%
desec.io3480%0.0%
web-solutions.dk2740%0.0%
designrus.dk2680%0.0%
deic.dk2670%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). 166,514 of the 482,694 signed zones we asked (34.5%) publish them; 444 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
8989.dk11 bytes
8a.dk11 bytes
8ern.dk11 bytes
8kostraad.dk105 bytes
8x5.dk11 bytes
9-star.dk11 bytes
9-stjernen.dk11 bytes
9-united.dk11 bytes
915.dk11 bytes
91929394.dk11 bytes
91999389.dk78 bytes
922.dk11 bytes
9240.dk11 bytes
93b.dk11 bytes
9493.dk78 bytes
951moseengen.dk11 bytes
9609.dk11 bytes
96181800.dk11 bytes
9620.dk11 bytes
96603300.dk11 bytes
96743030.dk11 bytes
97222511.dk11 bytes
97268566.dk11 bytes
9740.dk11 bytes
97851911.dk11 bytes
97861795.dk78 bytes
9800auto.dk11 bytes
98164151.dk11 bytes
98255050.dk11 bytes
98461122.dk11 bytes
98463388.dk11 bytes
98512066.dk11 bytes
98522200.dk11 bytes
987.dk78 bytes
98923055.dk11 bytes
9940.dk78 bytes
99400444.dk11 bytes
996.dk11 bytes
999-group.dk11 bytes
9999.dk11 bytes
99arter.dk11 bytes
9cph.dk11 bytes
9dbreathwork.dk11 bytes
9erteknik.dk11 bytes
9kp.dk11 bytes
9l.dk78 bytes
9mere.dk11 bytes
9pm.dk11 bytes
9star.dk11 bytes
9udaf10.dk11 bytes
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