🧮 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 447,609 domains probed so far (34.2% 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 300,065 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 171,841 (57.3%) use NSEC3, 121,273 (40.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 6,951 (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. 82,660 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 82,836 use a salt; 878 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
089,199
51.9%
175,084
43.7%
43
0.0%
57
0.0%
74,226
2.5%
86
0.0%
102,898
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50425
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com79,7110.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk39,210100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk18,946100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk8,026100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,5730%0.0%
wannafind.dk3,049100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,341100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,230100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk2,14463.2%63.2%
e-studio.dk1,57798.4%98.4%
loopia.se1,2390%0.0%
123hotel.dk678100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk573100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk48798.6%98.6%
simpleagencygroup.dk355100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk352100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk350100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net340100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk29499.7%99.7%
azehosting.net29092.1%92.1%
dnsadmin.dk27182.7%100.0%
designrus.dk2490%0.0%
desec.io2260%0.0%
deic.dk2230%0.0%
eurodns.com2170%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). 110,094 of the 325,229 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 294 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

85,112 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
frysetørretslik.dk11 bytes
frägt.dk11 bytes
frås.dk11 bytes
frække-kostumer.dk11 bytes
frækkestiletter.dk11 bytes
frækogfri.dk11 bytes
fröbel.dk11 bytes
frödin.dk11 bytes
frökenfur.dk11 bytes
fröya.dk11 bytes
frøbel.dk11 bytes
frøkenfur.dk11 bytes
frøkenhund.dk11 bytes
frønørd.dk78 bytes
frøposen.dk11 bytes
frøs.dk11 bytes
frøslev-kro.dk11 bytes
frøslevlejrensmuseum.dk1014 bytes
frøstruphave.dk11 bytes
frøsø.dk11 bytes
fs-c.dk11 bytes
fs-dev.dk11 bytes
fs-holding.dk11 bytes
fs-management.dk78 bytes
fs-media.dk11 bytes
fs-revision.dk11 bytes
fs-rørmontage.dk11 bytes
fs10.dk11 bytes
fs2media.dk11 bytes
fs2online.dk11 bytes
fsanorton.dk11 bytes
fsb-bolig.dk11 bytes
fsbbolig.dk11 bytes
fsbolig.dk11 bytes
fsbygoganlæg.dk11 bytes
fsc-center.dk11 bytes
fscamp.dk11 bytes
fsholding.dk11 bytes
fshopping.dk11 bytes
fsjkj.dk11 bytes
fsk365.dk11 bytes
fskn.dk11 bytes
fskuv.dk11 bytes
fskweb.dk11 bytes
fsleder.dk11 bytes
fsmplus.dk11 bytes
fsoconsult.dk11 bytes
fsps.dk11 bytes
fsrevision.dk11 bytes
fsta.dk11 bytes
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