Update on stats 2021-07

Viktor Dukhovni ietf-dane at dukhovni.org
Sun Aug 1 08:18:08 CEST 2021


NOTE:     When using NSEC3 to sign your domain, please make sure your extra
          iteration count is not needlessly large (i.e. above ~25, 0 is best).
          For details see:

              https://mail.sys4.de/pipermail/dane-users/2021-March/000594.html
              https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-nsec3-guidance-00

Summary:  The DANE domain count is now 2,653,718 (down from 2,671,696 last month).

          [ One Dutch hosting provider with ~25k DANE domains last month, no
            longer has MX TLSA records this month, perhaps temporarily? ]

          The number of domains that return DNSSEC-validated replies in
          response to MX queries is 15,663,538 (up from 15,370,647 last
          month).  Thus DANE TLSA is deployed on ~16.94% of domains with
          DNSSEC.  See https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/ for more stats.

Credits:  The coverage of DNSSEC domains continues to improve with
	  ongoing data support from Paul Vixie of Farsight Security.
	  Credits also due to ICANN for gTLD data via CZDS, and to
	  the TLD registries for .CH, .COM, .DK, .FR, .INFO, .IS, .LI,
	  .NL, .NU, .ORG and .SE.  More data sources of ccTLD
	  signed delegations welcome.

As of today I count 2,653,718 domains with correct SMTP DANE TLSA
records at every primary MX host that accepts connections[1].  As
expected, the bulk of the DANE domains are hosted by the DNS/email
hosting providers who've enabled DANE support for the customer domains
they host.  The top 20 MX host providers by domain count are below.

  This month                   Last month
  ----------                   ----------
  1227184 one.com              1229596 one.com            
   151493 transip.nl            150659 transip.nl         
   150376 argewebhosting.nl     150607 argewebhosting.nl  
   114457 infomaniak.ch         112821 infomaniak.ch      
   105236 domeneshop.no         105401 domeneshop.no      
    98871 webhostingserver.nl    99195 webhostingserver.nl
    94187 loopia.se              94181 loopia.se          
    70345 forpsi.com             70039 forpsi.com         
    42190 active24.com           42040 active24.com       
    39057 zxcs.nl                39239 webreus.nl         
    38973 webreus.nl             38021 zxcs.nl            
    37753 antagonist.nl          37715 pcextreme.nl       
    37509 pcextreme.nl           37563 antagonist.nl      
    28712 vevida.com             28958 vevida.com         
    27550 webhosting.dk          27525 webhosting.dk      
    26580 web4u.cz               26607 web4u.cz           
    26555 udmedia.de             26407 udmedia.de         
    24671 hosting2go.nl          24915 hosting2go.nl      
    19910 protonmail.ch          24728 spamservice.nl     
    18975 bhosted.nl             19280 protonmail.ch      

The real numbers are surely larger, because I don't have access to the
full zone data for most ccTLDs, especially .no/.cz/.de/.eu/.be.
Speaking of countries, the IPv4 GeoIP distribution of DANE-enabled MX
hosts shows the below top 20 countries (each unique IP address is
counted, so multi-homed MX hosts are perhaps somewhat over-represented).

  This month               Last month
  ----------               ----------
  8815 TOTAL               8751 TOTAL               
  2631 DE, Germany         2635 DE, Germany         
  1693 US, United States   1677 US, United States   
  1676 NL, Netherlands     1668 NL, Netherlands     
   662 FR, France           653 FR, France          
   313 GB, United Kingdom   317 GB, United Kingdom  
   226 CZ, Czechia          227 CZ, Czechia         
   206 CA, Canada           202 CA, Canada          
   174 FI, Finland          169 FI, Finland         
   124 DK, Denmark          124 DK, Denmark         
   122 SG, Singapore        121 SG, Singapore       
   106 CH, Switzerland      106 CH, Switzerland     
   102 SE, Sweden            97 SE, Sweden          
    84 AU, Australia         81 AU, Australia       
    76 AT, Austria           72 AT, Austria         
    41 RU, Russia            45 PL, Poland          
    41 PL, Poland            39 NO, Norway          
    41 IE, Ireland           39 IE, Ireland         
    40 NO, Norway            38 RU, Russia          
    40 BR, Brazil            37 JP, Japan           
    38 JP, Japan             37 BR, Brazil          

IPv6 is less common than IPv4 for MX hosts, and the top 20 countries by
DANE MX host IPv6 GeoIP are:

  This month               Last month
  ----------               ----------
  6948 TOTAL               6912 TOTAL               
  3301 NL, Netherlands     3291 NL, Netherlands     
  1810 DE, Germany         1807 DE, Germany         
   710 US, United States    699 US, United States   
   297 FR, France           292 FR, France          
   154 CZ, Czechia          143 GB, United Kingdom  
   137 GB, United Kingdom   138 CZ, Czechia         
    71 FI, Finland           75 FI, Finland         
    61 CA, Canada            59 CA, Canada          
    44 SG, Singapore         45 CH, Switzerland     
    43 SE, Sweden            44 SG, Singapore       
    42 CH, Switzerland       41 SE, Sweden          
    32 AU, Australia         30 AU, Australia       
    29 AT, Austria           28 AT, Austria         
    27 JP, Japan             25 JP, Japan           
    20 IE, Ireland           18 DK, Denmark         
    17 RU, Russia            17 RU, Russia          
    17 DK, Denmark           16 NO, Norway          
    16 NO, Norway            16 IE, Ireland         
    14 BR, Brazil            14 BR, Brazil          
    12 IN, India             11 PL, Poland          

There are 7,168 unique zones (7,132 last month) in which the underlying
MX hosts are found.  This counts each of the above providers as just one
zone, so is a measure of the breadth of adoption in terms of
organizations deploying DANE SMTP.

The number of published MX host TLSA RRsets found is 15,673 (15,568 last
month).  These cover 15,908 distinct MX hosts (15,805 last month, some
MX hosts share the same TLSA records through CNAMEs).

The number of DANE domains that at some point were listed in Gmail's
email transparency report is 496 (this is my ad-hoc criterion for a
domain being a large-enough actively used email domain).  Of these, 301
are in recent (last 90 days of) reports (see [2] below my signature).

Of the ~2.65 million domains, 12,719 (12,786 last month) have "partial"
TLSA records, that cover only a subset of the (secondary) MX hosts.
While this protects traffic to some of the MX hosts, such domains are
still vulnerable to the usual active attacks via the remaining MX hosts.

The number of domains with incorrect TLSA records or failure to offer
STARTTLS (even though TLSA records are published) stands today at 1187
(also 1187 last month).  Some of these have additional MX hosts that don't
have broken TLSA records, so mail can still arrive via the remaining MX
hosts.

To avoid email outages, please make sure to monitor the validity of your
own TLSA records, and implement a reliable key rotation procedure.  See:

    https://dane.sys4.de/common_mistakes
    https://github.com/internetstandards/toolbox-wiki/blob/master/DANE-for-SMTP-how-to.md
    https://mail.sys4.de/pipermail/dane-users/2018-February/000440.html
    https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/please-avoid-3-0-1-and-3-0-2-dane-tlsa-records-with-le-certificates/7022/17
    https://mail.sys4.de/pipermail/dane-users/2017-August/000417.html
    https://github.com/baknu/DANE-for-SMTP/wiki/2.-Implementation-resources

    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7671#section-8.1
    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7671#section-8.4

After eliminating parked domains that do not accept email, the number of
"real" email domains with bad DNSSEC support stands at 1329 (1661 last
month).  The top 10 name server operators with problem domains are:

  This month                  Last month
  ----------                  ----------
  548 registrar-servers.com  526 registrar-servers.com   
  119 axc.nl                 393 serverion.nl            
   88 ebola.cz               118 axc.nl                  
   48 epik.com                89 ebola.cz                
   28 made-easy.ch            50 epik.com                
   27 mijndomein.nl           29 made-easy.ch            
   26 3zy.de                  28 mijndomein.nl           
   24 tiscomhosting.nl        24 tiscomhosting.nl        
   22 netcup.net              22 cloudflare.com          
   20 cloudflare.com          16 movenext.nl             

If anyone has good contacts at some of these providers, please encourage
them to remediate not only the broken domains (I can send them a list),
but also the root cause that makes the breakage possible.

Three of the domains all whose nameservers have broken denial of
existence appear in the last 120 days of Google transparency reports:

  coren-sp.gov.br
  icv-crew.com
  bncr.fi.cr
  peacecorps.gov
  ssa.gov
  sauditelecom.com.sa
  kmutt.ac.th
  novathreads.us

--
      Viktor.

[1] Some domains deliberately include MX hosts that are always down,
presumably as a hurdle to botnet SMTP code that gives up where real MTAs
might persist.  I am not a fan of this type of defence (it can also
impose undue latency on legitimate email).  However, provided the dead
hosts still have TLSA records, (which don't need to match anything, just
need to exist and be well-formed) there's no loss of security.

[2] DANE domains appearing in last 90 days of Google Email transparency
reports:

univie.ac.at                  gmx.de                   ezorg.nl
gmx.at                        jpberlin.de              healthcheckcenter.nl
triodos.be                    kabelmail.de             herinneringenoplinnen.nl
cetelemnegocie.com.br         lmu.de                   hetamsterdamsverbond.nl
clubedohardware.com.br        lrz.de                   hostingpeople.nl
contactflex.com.br            mail.de                  hr.nl
corridaeaventura.com.br       mpg.de                   interconnect.nl
nic.br                        neutraler-versand.de     interim-netwerk.nl
registro.br                   posteo.de                luxiez.nl
pdac.ca                       ruhr-uni-bochum.de       mailplus.nl
gmx.ch                        tum.de                   markteffectmail.nl
hostpoint.ch                  tutanota.de              mijnuvt.nl
infomaniak.ch                 uni-erlangen.de          minbuza.nl
open.ch                       uni-muenchen.de          minbzk.nl
protonmail.ch                 unitymedia.de            mindef.nl
switch.ch                     web.de                   mkbbelangen.nl
travailler-en-suisse.ch       westlotto.de             mm1.nl
simplelogin.co                actie.deals              mulderretail.nl
ansigtsyogaonline.com         fibianet.dk              nieuwsservice-rvo.nl
beaconx.com                   fvst.dk                  ns.nl
connectsb.com                 handelsbanken.dk         ouderportaal.nl
coremultichain.com            netic.dk                 overheid.nl
dailyplaylists.com            shapeit.dk               parlement.nl
datev.com                     shellcard.dk             partijvoordedieren.nl
exegy.com                     stil.dk                  politie.nl
flaneurhomme.com              tilburguniversity.edu    powerslim.nl
gmx.com                       holt.ee                  pp-prd.nl
habr.com                      just.ee                  previder.nl
hotelsinduitsland.com         rik.ee                   purdey.nl
imcnig.com                    envie.email              rijksoverheid.nl
infomaniak.com                spam-filter.email        rivm.nl
ingthink.com                  spike.email              rotterdam.nl
intakt.com                    spotler.email            sans-mail.nl
joomlapolis.com               rediris.es               schoudercom.nl
jula.com                      triodos.es               schuurman-schoenen.nl
kpn.com                       uv.es                    sportrusten.nl
leszexpertsfle.com            litebit.eu               ssonet.nl
mail.com                      transadvise.eu           telefoonglaasje.nl
mammoetmail.com               zone.eu                  triodos.nl
matilhadobemadestramento.com  zonevs.eu                truetickets.nl
mx-relay.com                  handelsbanken.fi         tweedekamer.nl
mychildlebensborn.com         tarjousrinki.fi          uitgeverijpica.nl
nine-pine.com                 traficom.fi              utwente.nl
one.com                       ac-strasbourg.fr         uvt.nl
outsystems.com                compagnie-des-sens.fr    uwv.nl
protonmail.com                edtm-actu.fr             veilinghuispeerdeman.nl
protonvpn.com                 oo2.fr                   vogeldagboek.nl
sanderrossel.com              fidesz.hu                voorpositiviteit.nl
sankakucomplex.com            mindigbutor.hu           vu.nl
societe.com                   mszp.hu                  waternet.nl
solvinity.com                 interestexplorer.io      xs4all.nl
spareklubbnorge.com           pm.me                    zorgmail.nl
stellarequipment.com          army.mil                 annabellstefanussen.no
t-2.com                       dla.mil                  audi.no
thalesgroup.com               jten.mil                 bergengokart.no
triodos.com                   mail.mil                 derute.no
tutanota.com                  militaryonesource.mil    domeneshop.no
veganallsorts.com             navy.mil                 handelsbanken.no
veoliasophos.com              nga.mil                  idrettenonline.no
vitstore.com                  osd.mil                  norskgrammatikk.no
webcruiter.com                socom.mil                rushtrampoline.no
xfinity.com                   uscg.mil                 uib.no
xfinityhomesecurity.com       usmc.mil                 viphuset.no
xfinitymobile.com             comcast.net              atelkamera.nu
active24.cz                   fivem.net                goget.nu
akce-incomputer.cz            gmx.net                  debian.org
bewooden.cz                   habramail.net            freebsd.org
cuni.cz                       hr-manager.net           gentoo.org
ekokoza.cz                    inexio.net               ietf.org
gigalekarna.cz                mijngezondheid.net       irtf.org
itesco.cz                     mpssec.net               isc.org
klenotyaurum.cz               procurios.net            mailbox.org
klubpevnehozdravi.cz          ripe.net                 mailop.org
manymail.cz                   riseup.net               netbsd.org
nic.cz                        t-2.net                  openssl.org
omvnovinky.cz                 transip.net              ozlabs.org
onebit.cz                     xs4all.net               samba.org
optimail.cz                   xworks.net               torproject.org
poptavej.cz                   123watches.nl            whatpulse.org
reserved.cz                   amsterdam.nl             psgaz.pl
scrptd.cz                     awcloud.nl               asf.com.pt
server4u.cz                   belastingdienst.nl       mobily.com.sa
smtp.cz                       bhosted.nl               bilprovningen.se
stoklasa.cz                   bhsupport.nl             boplatssyd-automail.se
toplist.cz                    bibliotheekdenhaag.nl    ecster.se
vas-server.cz                 bluerail.nl              handelsbanken.se
vcelka.cz                     boekwinkeltjes.nl        loopia.se
virusfree.cz                  bolerolimonadewinkel.nl  loopiahosting.se
zdravestravovani.cz           boozyshop.nl             matlistan.se
123watches.de                 burgernet.nl             minmyndighetspost.se
bayern.de                     cbr.nl                   personligalmanacka.se
brandenburg.de                cbs.nl                   skatteverket.se
bund.de                       citrusveiling.nl         teknikdelar.se
bundesregierung.de            corpoflow.nl             theletter.se
datev.de                      denhaag.nl               websupport.se
dfn.de                        derooijfotografie.nl     triodos.co.uk
ekom21.de                     digid.nl                 xepay.co.uk
elster.de                     duo.nl                   govtrack.us
fau.de                        edenhotels.nl            quantum-services.us
followerpilot.de              efactuurdirect.nl        ru.ac.za
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