🧮 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 385,520 domains probed so far (29.5% 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 258,374 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 147,897 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 104,477 (40.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 6,000 (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. 71,202 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 71,357 use a salt; 756 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
076,700
51.9%
164,670
43.7%
43
0.0%
56
0.0%
73,645
2.5%
86
0.0%
102,488
1.7%
124
0.0%
207
0.0%
215
0.0%
50369
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com68,4870.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk33,701100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk16,371100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk6,963100.0%100.0%
hyp.net3,9590%0.0%
wannafind.dk2,601100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,016100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk1,935100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk1,83063.2%63.2%
e-studio.dk1,37298.5%98.5%
loopia.se1,0530%0.0%
123hotel.dk583100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk484100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk41298.8%98.8%
simpleagencygroup.dk305100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk304100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk280100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net279100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk25299.6%99.6%
azehosting.net24392.2%92.2%
designrus.dk2380%0.0%
dnsadmin.dk23684.3%100.0%
desec.io2030%0.0%
eurodns.com2010%0.0%
deic.dk1820%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). 94,818 of the 279,875 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 251 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

72,501 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
csrkommunikation.dk11 bytes
csrnext.dk11 bytes
csrorg.dk11 bytes
css-as.dk11 bytes
css-ejendomsservice.dk11 bytes
cssgroup.dk11 bytes
cssvendborg.dk11 bytes
cst-music.dk11 bytes
cst-musik.dk11 bytes
cstage.dk11 bytes
csti.dk1010 bytes
cstintra.dk105 bytes
cstmusic.dk11 bytes
cstraps.dk11 bytes
csuv.dk11 bytes
ctcoin.dk11 bytes
ctel.dk11 bytes
ctelectronics.dk11 bytes
ctgruppen.dk11 bytes
cth-entreprise.dk11 bytes
cthor.dk11 bytes
cti-gov.dk1011 bytes
ctlaw.dk11 bytes
ctonnp.dk11 bytes
ctrb.dk11 bytes
ctrlmagazine.dk11 bytes
ctsolution.dk11 bytes
ctstaal.dk11 bytes
ctstyling.dk11 bytes
cttools.dk11 bytes
cttorp.dk11 bytes
cturn.dk11 bytes
cu9991.dk1010 bytes
cu9992.dk102 bytes
cubbystock.dk11 bytes
cube-group.dk11 bytes
cube-net.dk11 bytes
cube-studio.dk11 bytes
cubeconsulting.dk11 bytes
cubecykel.dk11 bytes
cubedesign.dk11 bytes
cubegroup.dk11 bytes
cubexsystemer.dk11 bytes
cubikdenmark.dk11 bytes
cubiloo.dk11 bytes
cubs.dk18 bytes
cuddlingzonen.dk11 bytes
cuecreator.dk78 bytes
cugo.dk11 bytes
cuirl.dk78 bytes
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