🧮 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 162,034 domains probed so far (12.4% 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 108,398 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 62,129 (57.3%) use NSEC3, 43,793 (40.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 2,476 (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. 30,004 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 30,081 use a salt; 320 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
032,125
51.7%
127,274
43.9%
41
0.0%
53
0.0%
71,499
2.4%
83
0.0%
101,060
1.7%
123
0.0%
203
0.0%
212
0.0%
50157
0.3%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com28,6130.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk14,245100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk6,858100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk2,892100.0%100.0%
hyp.net1,7110%0.0%
wannafind.dk1,114100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk864100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk836100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk72665.3%65.3%
e-studio.dk56598.9%98.9%
loopia.se4460%0.0%
123hotel.dk255100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk183100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk17997.8%97.8%
wixdns.net137100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk133100.0%100.0%
simpleagencygroup.dk127100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk115100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk107100.0%100.0%
dnsadmin.dk10681.1%100.0%
desec.io920%0.0%
eurodns.com910%0.0%
designrus.dk900%0.0%
azehosting.net8988.8%88.8%
deic.dk710%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). 39,746 of the 116,176 signed zones we asked (34.2%) publish them; 102 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

32,825 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
m-frick.dk11 bytes
m-h-service.dk11 bytes
m-j-service.dk11 bytes
m-jrevision.dk11 bytes
m-k-k.dk11 bytes
m-ka.dk18 bytes
m-l-h.dk78 bytes
m-ll.dk11 bytes
m-m-n.dk11 bytes
m-o-s.dk78 bytes
m-pedersen.dk11 bytes
m-revsbech.dk11 bytes
m-s.dk11 bytes
m1tld.dk105 bytes
m2-byg.dk11 bytes
m2beaute.dk11 bytes
m2byg.dk11 bytes
m2g.dk11 bytes
m2invision.dk11 bytes
m2mnordic.dk11 bytes
m2motorsport.dk11 bytes
m3auto.dk11 bytes
m3ejendomsservice.dk78 bytes
m3hotel.dk11 bytes
m8byme.dk11 bytes
m9-gaming.dk11 bytes
ma-equest.dk11 bytes
ma-servicecenter.dk11 bytes
ma-teknik.dk11 bytes
maak-shop.dk11 bytes
maalbart.dk11 bytes
maaltidsboxen.dk11 bytes
maaltidsmaerket.dk106 bytes
maanedensmodarbejder.dk11 bytes
maanedsbil.dk11 bytes
maanegal.dk78 bytes
maartensson-el.dk11 bytes
maas-int.dk11 bytes
mabay.dk11 bytes
mabeck.dk11 bytes
mabo.dk11 bytes
mabyg.dk11 bytes
macan.dk11 bytes
macartneyhydraulics.dk11 bytes
mack-media.dk11 bytes
mackmedia.dk11 bytes
macors.dk11 bytes
macromodel.dk1014 bytes
macs.dk11 bytes
macsharp.dk11 bytes
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