🧮 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 365,576 domains probed so far (28.0% 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 244,971 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 140,224 (57.2%) use NSEC3, 99,065 (40.4%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 5,682 (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. 67,538 NSEC3 zones (48.2%) still use iterations and 67,688 use a salt; 713 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
072,686
51.8%
161,352
43.8%
43
0.0%
56
0.0%
73,450
2.5%
85
0.0%
102,358
1.7%
124
0.0%
207
0.0%
215
0.0%
50350
0.2%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com64,9360.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk32,009100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk15,468100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk6,634100.0%100.0%
hyp.net3,7360%0.0%
wannafind.dk2,460100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk1,911100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk1,839100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk1,72863.6%63.6%
e-studio.dk1,29898.5%98.5%
loopia.se9950%0.0%
123hotel.dk559100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk464100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk39098.7%98.7%
simpleagencygroup.dk287100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk287100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net266100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk263100.0%100.0%
yayhosting.dk238100.0%100.0%
azehosting.net23192.2%92.2%
designrus.dk2250%0.0%
dnsadmin.dk22283.3%100.0%
eurodns.com1960%0.0%
desec.io1900%0.0%
deic.dk1750%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). 89,890 of the 265,298 signed zones we asked (33.9%) publish them; 240 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

69,124 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
payvend.dk11 bytes
pazzoni.dk11 bytes
pb-data.dk11 bytes
pb-e.dk11 bytes
pb-t.dk11 bytes
pbandj.dk11 bytes
pbbuild.dk11 bytes
pbejendomme.dk11 bytes
pbelaw.dk11 bytes
pbiskat.dk11 bytes
pbj-ribe.dk11 bytes
pbjerager.dk11 bytes
pbmal-engros.dk11 bytes
pbmiljo.dk11 bytes
pbn.dk11 bytes
pbnt.dk11 bytes
pbpronto.dk11 bytes
pbrandi.dk11 bytes
pbtconsulting.dk11 bytes
pbtest.dk11 bytes
pbtraadgnist.dk11 bytes
pbusurvey.dk11 bytes
pbvinvest.dk11 bytes
pbvv.dk11 bytes
pbweb.dk11 bytes
pbx.dk11 bytes
pbxoptagelser.dk11 bytes
pc-biler.dk11 bytes
pc-billig.dk78 bytes
pc-crash.dk11 bytes
pc-erhverv.dk11 bytes
pc-extra.dk11 bytes
pc-illustration.dk11 bytes
pc-noer.dk78 bytes
pc-r.dk11 bytes
pc-t.dk11 bytes
pcb-guide.dk107 bytes
pcb-guiden.dk1011 bytes
pcbguiden.dk1013 bytes
pcbiler.dk11 bytes
pcbrev.dk11 bytes
pcchr.dk11 bytes
pcco.dk11 bytes
pcdania.dk11 bytes
pcde.dk11 bytes
pce.dk11 bytes
pcel.dk78 bytes
pcerhverv.dk11 bytes
pcgabriel.dk78 bytes
pcglas.dk11 bytes
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