🧮 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 843,413 domains probed so far (64.5% 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 570,688 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 316,449 (55.5%) use NSEC3, 241,951 (42.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 12,288 (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. 152,804 NSEC3 zones (48.3%) still use iterations and 153,096 use a salt; 1,396 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
0163,650
51.7%
1140,894
44.5%
43
0.0%
510
0.0%
77,448
2.4%
88
0.0%
103,758
1.2%
125
0.0%
132
0.0%
141
0.0%
2012
0.0%
2112
0.0%
50655
0.2%
991
0.0%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com146,4020.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk73,632100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk35,416100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk15,269100.0%100.0%
hyp.net8,3640%0.0%
wannafind.dk5,600100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk4,385100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk3,83861.6%61.6%
e-studio.dk2,80598.3%98.3%
sitnet.dk2,660100.0%100.0%
loopia.se2,5950%0.0%
123hotel.dk1,234100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk1,052100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk87198.9%98.9%
simpleagencygroup.dk695100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk660100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net638100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk622100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk52899.6%99.6%
azehosting.net51892.7%92.7%
dnsadmin.dk51186.1%100.0%
desec.io4410%0.0%
web-solutions.dk3730%0.0%
eurodns.com2990%0.0%
podi.dk296100.0%100.0%

🔄 CDS / CDNSKEY (automated DS updates)

CDS and CDNSKEY records let a DNS operator hand key rollovers to the registry automatically (RFC 7344/8078). 220,084 of the 618,227 signed zones we asked (35.6%) publish them; 533 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

100,000+ zones
DomainIterationsSalt
aclasscms.dk11 bytes
acleanspirit.dk11 bytes
aclon.dk11 bytes
acm-consulting.dk11 bytes
acmail.dk11 bytes
acmaler.dk11 bytes
acmilan.dk78 bytes
acmn.dk11 bytes
acmors.dk11 bytes
acmotorparts.dk11 bytes
acmotors.dk11 bytes
acn.dk11 bytes
acoa.dk11 bytes
acobaps.dk11 bytes
acon-group.dk11 bytes
acon-sec.dk11 bytes
acon.dk11 bytes
acongroup.dk11 bytes
aconsec.dk11 bytes
acordes.dk11 bytes
acore.dk11 bytes
acornunited.dk11 bytes
acouflex.dk11 bytes
acoura.dk11 bytes
acouravin.dk11 bytes
acoustic-solution.dk11 bytes
acousticsplus.dk11 bytes
acp.dk11 bytes
acpingvin.dk11 bytes
acquiro.dk11 bytes
acr-bilstereo.dk11 bytes
acr-caraudio.dk11 bytes
acr-carsound.dk11 bytes
acrecycling.dk11 bytes
acrmedier.dk11 bytes
acron.dk11 bytes
acrteknik.dk11 bytes
acrylrør.dk11 bytes
acrylux.dk11 bytes
acsales.dk11 bytes
acshop.dk11 bytes
acskagehus.dk11 bytes
acskive.dk11 bytes
acsnet.dk11 bytes
acsports.dk11 bytes
act-dk.dk11 bytes
act-logimark.dk11 bytes
actag.dk11 bytes
actatelier.dk11 bytes
actcoffee.dk11 bytes
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