🧮 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
9united.dk11 bytes
9v.dk11 bytes
9werk.dk11 bytes
a-a.dk11 bytes
a-antik.dk11 bytes
a-autovaerksted.dk11 bytes
a-b-h.dk11 bytes
a-b-t.dk11 bytes
a-beauty.dk11 bytes
a-behnk.dk11 bytes
a-bioenergi.dk11 bytes
a-broholm.dk11 bytes
a-busserne.dk11 bytes
a-c-byg.dk11 bytes
a-class.dk11 bytes
a-construction.dk11 bytes
a-consult.dk11 bytes
a-damgaard.dk11 bytes
a-den.dk11 bytes
a-e-s.dk11 bytes
a-e.dk11 bytes
a-enemark.dk11 bytes
a-entreprise.dk11 bytes
a-few.dk11 bytes
a-g.dk11 bytes
a-gainer.dk11 bytes
a-gartner.dk11 bytes
a-goth.dk11 bytes
a-h-consulting.dk11 bytes
a-ha.dk11 bytes
a-hereford-beefstouw.dk11 bytes
a-horse.dk11 bytes
a-hotel.dk11 bytes
a-i.dk11 bytes
a-jorgensen.dk11 bytes
a-k.dk11 bytes
a-kasse-forsikring.dk11 bytes
a-kasse-tjek.dk11 bytes
a-kassefinderen.dk78 bytes
a-kasseforsikring.dk11 bytes
a-l-j.dk78 bytes
a-liga.dk11 bytes
a-live.dk11 bytes
a-lorentzen.dk11 bytes
a-lund.dk11 bytes
a-maerket.dk10 bytes
a-media.dk11 bytes
a-moment-of.dk11 bytes
a-o-a.dk11 bytes
a-onepackaging.dk11 bytes
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