🧮 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 675,282 domains probed so far (51.6% 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 454,886 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 257,084 (56.5%) use NSEC3, 187,593 (41.2%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 10,209 (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. 124,065 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 124,305 use a salt; 1,200 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0133,030
51.7%
1113,693
44.2%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
76,142
2.4%
87
0.0%
103,619
1.4%
125
0.0%
131
0.0%
141
0.0%
2010
0.0%
219
0.0%
50577
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com119,2190.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk59,302100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk28,729100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk12,304100.0%100.0%
hyp.net6,7910%0.0%
wannafind.dk4,516100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk3,561100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,18261.3%61.3%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
e-studio.dk2,28798.3%98.3%
loopia.se1,8440%0.0%
123hotel.dk1,003100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk842100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk71998.6%98.6%
simpleagencygroup.dk559100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk541100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk533100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net521100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net44092.5%92.5%
yayhosting.dk42499.5%99.5%
dnsadmin.dk41884.4%100.0%
desec.io3530%0.0%
web-solutions.dk2790%0.0%
designrus.dk2690%0.0%
deic.dk2680%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). 170,451 of the 493,370 signed zones we asked (34.5%) publish them; 453 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
bgr-construction.dk11 bytes
bgrace.dk78 bytes
bgram.dk1016 bytes
bgreenbycallapor.dk11 bytes
bgreenmundo.dk11 bytes
bgreenworld.dk11 bytes
bgro.dk11 bytes
bgtrade.dk11 bytes
bguld.dk11 bytes
bgv94.dk78 bytes
bh-aagaarden.dk11 bytes
bh-consulting.dk11 bytes
bh-entreprenoer.dk11 bytes
bh-g.dk11 bytes
bh-ringvejen.dk11 bytes
bh-trae.dk11 bytes
bha-management.dk11 bytes
bhbg.dk11 bytes
bhbr.dk11 bytes
bhbyg.dk11 bytes
bhc-as.dk11 bytes
bhcarlsen.dk11 bytes
bhd.dk11 bytes
bhdk.dk11 bytes
bhem.dk11 bytes
bherning.dk11 bytes
bhgulve.dk11 bytes
bhhyrdebakken.dk11 bytes
bhi.dk11 bytes
bhits.dk11 bytes
bhj-fonden.dk11 bytes
bhk-udd.dk11 bytes
bhkeramik.dk11 bytes
bhklf.dk11 bytes
bhkv.dk11 bytes
bhlmail.dk11 bytes
bhmdesign.dk11 bytes
bhove.dk11 bytes
bhp-consulting.dk11 bytes
bhpmanagement.dk11 bytes
bhs-kloak.dk11 bytes
bhsejendomme.dk11 bytes
bhskaarup.dk11 bytes
bhskloak.dk11 bytes
bhslogistics.dk11 bytes
bhslogistik.dk11 bytes
bhsm.dk11 bytes
bhsmede.dk11 bytes
bhsribe.dk11 bytes
bhstrans.dk11 bytes
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