🧮 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 406,331 domains probed so far (31.1% 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 272,303 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 155,989 (57.3%) use NSEC3, 110,001 (40.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 6,313 (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. 75,093 NSEC3 zones (48.1%) still use iterations and 75,255 use a salt; 803 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
080,898
51.9%
168,208
43.7%
43
0.0%
56
0.0%
73,831
2.5%
86
0.0%
102,627
1.7%
124
0.0%
209
0.0%
215
0.0%
50394
0.3%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com72,2690.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk35,617100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk17,220100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk7,308100.0%100.0%
hyp.net4,1660%0.0%
wannafind.dk2,745100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk2,119100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk2,039100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk1,93163.2%63.2%
e-studio.dk1,44798.3%98.3%
loopia.se1,1090%0.0%
123hotel.dk616100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk520100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk43498.8%98.8%
simpleagencygroup.dk322100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk322100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk304100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net298100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk26299.6%99.6%
azehosting.net25991.9%91.9%
dnsadmin.dk25383.8%100.0%
designrus.dk2410%0.0%
desec.io2110%0.0%
eurodns.com2080%0.0%
deic.dk1930%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). 99,861 of the 295,042 signed zones we asked (33.8%) publish them; 265 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

78,898 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
løwenstein.dk11 bytes
lüdemann.dk11 bytes
lügenhals.dk11 bytes
lützen.dk11 bytes
m-a-d.dk11 bytes
m-a-trade.dk11 bytes
m-auto-aars.dk11 bytes
m-beauty.dk11 bytes
m-center.dk11 bytes
m-christiansen.dk11 bytes
m-clean.dk78 bytes
m-commissioning.dk11 bytes
m-conprocess.dk11 bytes
m-dh.dk11 bytes
m-e-engineering.dk11 bytes
m-ejendomme.dk11 bytes
m-entreprenoer.dk11 bytes
m-frick.dk11 bytes
m-gaarden.dk78 bytes
m-gc.dk11 bytes
m-h-service.dk11 bytes
m-h.dk11 bytes
m-j-service.dk11 bytes
m-jrevision.dk11 bytes
m-k-j.dk11 bytes
m-k-k.dk11 bytes
m-ka.dk18 bytes
m-kruse.dk11 bytes
m-l-h.dk78 bytes
m-ll.dk11 bytes
m-m-n.dk11 bytes
m-ml.dk11 bytes
m-mp.dk11 bytes
m-o-s.dk78 bytes
m-pedersen.dk11 bytes
m-revsbech.dk11 bytes
m-s.dk11 bytes
m-sbyg.dk11 bytes
m-schackengel.dk11 bytes
m-service.dk11 bytes
m-v.dk11 bytes
m-w-k.dk11 bytes
m-w.dk11 bytes
m10-rammer.dk11 bytes
m1tid.dk101 bytes
m1tiderhverv.dk102 bytes
m1tld.dk105 bytes
m2-byg.dk11 bytes
m22.dk11 bytes
m2650.dk11 bytes
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