Update on stats 2021-11

Viktor Dukhovni ietf-dane at dukhovni.org
Wed Dec 1 05:42:44 CET 2021


Summary:  The DANE domain count is now 3,005,393 (up from 2,974,861 last month).

          The number of domains that return DNSSEC-validated replies in
          response to MX queries is 16,982,372 (up from 16,638,332 last
          month).  Thus DANE TLSA is deployed on ~17.69% of domains with
          DNSSEC.  See https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/ for more stats.
          [ See the Credits[0] list below my signature. ]

As of today I count ~3.0 million 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
  ----------                   ----------
  1230165 one.com              1219713 one.com
   272727 hostpoint.ch          270842 hostpoint.ch
   154952 transip.nl            154249 transip.nl
   154347 infomaniak.ch         152372 infomaniak.ch
   149718 argewebhosting.nl     150807 argewebhosting.nl
   106004 domeneshop.no         105814 domeneshop.no
    98029 webhostingserver.nl    98302 webhostingserver.nl
    95100 loopia.se              94851 loopia.se
    71946 forpsi.com             71517 forpsi.com
    48270 zxcs.nl                46431 active24.com
    46581 active24.com           45675 zxcs.nl
    42121 webreus.nl             42325 webreus.nl
    38213 antagonist.nl          38150 antagonist.nl
    36362 pcextreme.nl           36614 pcextreme.nl
    27450 vevida.com             27758 vevida.com
    26984 udmedia.de             27035 webhosting.dk
    26916 webhosting.dk          26937 udmedia.de
    26483 web4u.cz               26456 web4u.cz
    23612 hosting2go.nl          23884 hosting2go.nl
    22118 protonmail.ch          21623 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
  ----------               ----------
  9230 TOTAL               9206 TOTAL
  2691 DE, Germany         2692 DE, Germany
  1781 NL, Netherlands     1768 NL, Netherlands
  1710 US, United States   1731 US, United States
   697 FR, France           699 FR, France
   325 GB, United Kingdom   334 GB, United Kingdom
   264 CZ, Czechia          245 CZ, Czechia
   206 CA, Canada           208 CA, Canada
   204 FI, Finland          203 FI, Finland
   131 AT, Austria          127 DK, Denmark
   129 DK, Denmark          121 AT, Austria
   118 SG, Singapore        120 SG, Singapore
   108 CH, Switzerland      107 CH, Switzerland
    98 SE, Sweden           100 AU, Australia
    93 AU, Australia         98 SE, Sweden
    56 PL, Poland            54 PL, Poland
    44 NO, Norway            44 RU, Russia
    43 RU, Russia            44 NO, Norway
    43 IE, Ireland           42 IE, Ireland
    38 JP, Japan             41 BR, Brazil
    38 BR, Brazil            36 JP, Japan

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
  ----------               ----------
  7274 TOTAL               7202 TOTAL
  3431 NL, Netherlands     3389 NL, Netherlands
  1903 DE, Germany         1889 DE, Germany
   757 US, United States    767 US, United States
   300 FR, France           290 FR, France
   156 CZ, Czechia          153 CZ, Czechia
   133 GB, United Kingdom   136 GB, United Kingdom
    80 FI, Finland           78 FI, Finland
    60 CA, Canada            61 CA, Canada
    45 CH, Switzerland       42 SG, Singapore
    42 SG, Singapore         42 CH, Switzerland
    42 SE, Sweden            41 SE, Sweden
    38 AU, Australia         40 AU, Australia
    31 AT, Austria           37 AT, Austria
    28 JP, Japan             24 JP, Japan
    26 RU, Russia            22 IE, Ireland
    23 IE, Ireland           20 NO, Norway
    19 NO, Norway            17 DK, Denmark
    18 DK, Denmark           15 BR, Brazil
    15 BR, Brazil            14 RU, Russia
    13 IN, India             11 SI, Slovenia

There are 7,451 unique zones (7,410 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 16,295 (16,101 last
month).  These cover 16,562 distinct MX hosts (16,358 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 557 (this is my ad-hoc criterion for a
domain being a large-enough actively used email domain).  Of these, 331
are in recent (last 90 days of) reports (see [2] below my signature).

Of the ~3.0 million DANE domains, 12,750 (12,735 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 1086
(1802 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.  The affected domain counts for the top 10 problem MX hosts are:

    90 beta.itcomputers.eu
    44 fsn1-c04.xemo-net.de
    19 mx1.mdbraber.com
    16 mail.odissee.net
    16 e-vps.hacktheplanet.nl
    15 web1.ams.dcg.t-host.net
    15 artemis.strebsjig.net
    13 entrante.svnt.com
    12 mail.bi9.de
    8 postmark.flame.org

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

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7671#section-8.1
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/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 1181 (1148 last
month).  The top 10 name server operators with problem domains are:

  This month                  Last month
  ----------                  ----------
  564 registrar-servers.com   553 registrar-servers.com
  124 axc.nl                  122 axc.nl
   88 ebola.cz                 87 ebola.cz
   33 worldnic.com             33 made-easy.ch
   30 mijndomein.nl            32 mijndomein.nl
   30 made-easy.ch             30 worldnic.com
   16 cloudflare.com           17 cloudflare.com
   11 vtx.ch                   11 openprovider.nl
   11 openprovider.nl          10 vtx.ch
   10 register.com              8 register.com

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.

Six 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
  tdnewissues.com
  urbtix.hk
  kprm.gov.pl
  novathreads.us

--
      Viktor.

[0] 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.

[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                  fau.de                   herinneringenoplinnen.nl
gmx.at                        freenet.de               hetamsterdamsverbond.nl
tip.net.au                    gmx.de                   huizenzoeker.nl
pcug.org.au                   jpberlin.de              interconnect.nl
pictolezen.be                 lrz.de                   interim-netwerk.nl
triodos.be                    mail.de                  justis.nl
tbibank.bg                    mpg.de                   luxiez.nl
cetelemnegocie.com.br         mvnet.de                 mailplus.nl
e-renegocie.com.br            neutraler-versand.de     mailshover.nl
nic.br                        posteo.de                markteffectmail.nl
registro.br                   ruhr-uni-bochum.de       mijnuvt.nl
ehefueralle.ch                tum.de                   minbuza.nl
gmx.ch                        tutanota.de              minbzk.nl
hostpoint.ch                  uni-erlangen.de          mindef.nl
infomaniak.ch                 uni-muenchen.de          minvenj.nl
linsenkontakt.ch              unitymedia.de            mm1.nl
open.ch                       web.de                   mulderretail.nl
protonmail.ch                 westlotto.de             nieuwsservice-rvo.nl
switch.ch                     actie.deals              ns.nl
travailler-en-suisse.ch       dk-hostmaster.dk         orangebag.nl
simplelogin.co                fibianet.dk              ouderenfonds.nl
altospam.com                  handelsbanken.dk         overheid.nl
ansigtsyogaonline.com         netic.dk                 parlement.nl
boekenwereld.com              nota.dk                  partijvoordedieren.nl
bornomail.com                 nst.dk                   paypro.nl
cm.com                        powerhosting.dk          podiumcadeaukaart.nl
connectsb.com                 shapeit.dk               politie.nl
dailyplaylists.com            shellcard.dk             pp-prd.nl
datev.com                     uvm.dk                   previder.nl
exegy.com                     wavell.dk                purdey.nl
flaneurhomme.com              webhosting.dk            rdw.nl
gmx.com                       tilburguniversity.edu    rijksoverheid.nl
habr.com                      just.ee                  rivm.nl
hotelsinduitsland.com         envie.email              rotterdam.nl
imcnig.com                    spike.email              sans-mail.nl
infomaniak.com                spotler.email            schoudercom.nl
ingthink.com                  talentech.email          schuurman-schoenen.nl
intakt.com                    rediris.es               smartwatchbanden.nl
joomlapolis.com               triodos.es               sportrusten.nl
jula.com                      uv.es                    ssonet.nl
kpn.com                       egu.eu                   telefoonglaasje.nl
leszexpertsfle.com            glowliving.eu            triodos.nl
mail.com                      zone.eu                  truetickets.nl
mailfence.com                 zonevs.eu                tweedekamer.nl
mammoetmail.com               handelsbanken.fi         uitgeverijpica.nl
mantapsurvey.com              tarjousrinki.fi          utwente.nl
matilhadobemadestramento.com  traficom.fi              uvt.nl
mx-relay.com                  ac-strasbourg.fr         uwv.nl
nanolearning.com              compagnie-des-sens.fr    veilinghuispeerdeman.nl
nine-pine.com                 edtm-actu.fr             voorpositiviteit.nl
one.com                       oo2.fr                   vu.nl
outsystems.com                srci.fr                  waternet.nl
protonmail.com                excelsior.hu             werkenbijaldautomotive.nl
protonvpn.com                 fidesz.hu                zorgmail.nl
renworkshops.com              gardrobom.hu             annabellstefanussen.no
sankakucomplex.com            mszp.hu                  audi.no
schizinfo.com                 obiserver.hu             derute.no
serverclienti.com             otthonplus.hu            domeneshop.no
societe.com                   bluebiz.info             forbrukslaan.no
solvinity.com                 interestexplorer.io      handelsbanken.no
spareklubbnorge.com           neolink.link             idrettenonline.no
stellarequipment.com          pm.me                    kapitalkontroll.no
t-2.com                       army.mil                 leadmail.no
thalesgroup.com               dla.mil                  mystuff.no
thepcw.com                    jten.mil                 norskgrammatikk.no
thepcwholesale.com            mail.mil                 plukkselv.no
triodos.com                   militaryonesource.mil    uib.no
tutanota.com                  navy.mil                 viphuset.no
veganallsorts.com             osd.mil                  atelkamera.nu
vitstore.com                  socom.mil                goget.nu
vivaldi.com                   uscg.mil                 debian.org
webcruiter.com                usmc.mil                 exim.org
webmailph.com                 comcast.net              freebsd.org
xfinity.com                   fivem.net                gentoo.org
xfinityhomesecurity.com       gmx.net                  ietf.org
xfinitymobile.com             habramail.net            isc.org
30tidennivyzva.cz             hr-manager.net           mailbox.org
akce-incomputer.cz            inexio.net               mailop.org
cesnet.cz                     mijngezondheid.net       netbsd.org
csob.cz                       mpssec.net               openssl.org
cuni.cz                       procurios.net            ozlabs.org
cvut.cz                       prolocation.net          samba.org
ekokoza.cz                    ripe.net                 torproject.org
gigalekarna.cz                riseup.net               whatpulse.org
itesco.cz                     t-2.net                  psgaz.pl
klenotyaurum.cz               transip.net              asf.com.pt
klubpevnehozdravi.cz          xs4all.net               mobily.com.sa
manymail.cz                   123watches.nl            alterskjaer.se
mkluzkoviny.cz                amsterdam.nl             axmarin.se
muni.cz                       argeweb.nl               bilprovningen.se
nic.cz                        artsenzorg.nl            boplatssyd-automail.se
omvnovinky.cz                 awcloud.nl               ecster.se
onebit.cz                     belastingdienst.nl       handelsbanken.se
optimail.cz                   bhosted.nl               loopia.se
poptavej.cz                   bhsupport.nl             loopiahosting.se
scrptd.cz                     bluerail.nl              minmyndighetspost.se
server4u.cz                   boekwinkeltjes.nl        racketspecialisten.se
smtp.cz                       bolerolimonadewinkel.nl  skatteverket.se
sparkys.cz                    boozyshop.nl             teknikdelar.se
stoklasa.cz                   burgernet.nl             theletter.se
vas-server.cz                 cbr.nl                   websupport.se
virusfree.cz                  cbs.nl                   kadernickyservis.sk
zdravestravovani.cz           corpoflow.nl             mklozkoviny.sk
bayern.de                     derooijfotografie.nl     najlacnejsisport.sk
brandenburg.de                digid.nl                 rondogo.sk
bund.de                       duo.nl                   toptop.sk
bundesregierung.de            edenhotels.nl            triodos.co.uk
datev.de                      ezorg.nl                 govtrack.us
dfn.de                        healthcheckcenter.nl     quantum-services.us
dvz-mv.de                     heilbron.nl              ru.ac.za
elster.de


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