🧮 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

72,509 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
idrætssektoren.dk11 bytes
idrættenskonsulenthus.dk11 bytes
ids.dk11 bytes
idsdata.dk11 bytes
idtegnebog.dk1010 bytes
iduck.dk11 bytes
idzonen.dk11 bytes
idéfabrikken.dk11 bytes
idépris.dk11 bytes
idéprisen.dk11 bytes
iec.dk11 bytes
iecd.dk11 bytes
iedi.dk11 bytes
ieft.dk78 bytes
iekm.dk11 bytes
iemail.dk78 bytes
ifa-hetag.dk11 bytes
ifa-vvs.dk11 bytes
ifanger.dk11 bytes
ifart.dk11 bytes
ifataghetag.dk11 bytes
ifc-watercongress.dk11 bytes
ifeedback.dk11 bytes
ifiber.dk11 bytes
ifk.dk11 bytes
ifkl.dk11 bytes
ifmp.dk11 bytes
iformtillivet.dk11 bytes
ifos.dk11 bytes
ifoto.dk11 bytes
ifviking.dk11 bytes
igangel.dk11 bytes
igangsætteren.dk11 bytes
igelsogaard.dk11 bytes
igen-sten.dk11 bytes
igen-tekstil.dk11 bytes
igen-tøj.dk11 bytes
igenbrugsen.dk11 bytes
igenerationer.dk11 bytes
igjacobsen.dk11 bytes
iglu.dk11 bytes
igniting.dk11 bytes
igp3udtagelser.dk11 bytes
igribe.dk11 bytes
igrow.dk11 bytes
igs.dk11 bytes
igv-ejendom.dk11 bytes
igv.dk11 bytes
igym.dk11 bytes
ih2o.dk11 bytes
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