Update on stats 2021-05

Viktor Dukhovni ietf-dane at dukhovni.org
Tue Jun 1 09:11:11 CEST 2021


NOTE:     When using NSEC3 to sign your domain, please make sure your iteration
          count is not needlessly large (above ~25).  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 2,638,525 (up from 2,623,358 last month).

          The number of domains that return DNSSEC-validated replies in
          response to MX queries is 15,118,039 (up from 14,890,975 last
          month).  Thus DANE TLSA is deployed on ~17.45% of domains with
          DNSSEC.  See https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/ for more stats.

          The Let's Encrypt Issuer CA switch from X3/X4 to R3/R4 has
          taken place, and all previously issued X3-issued certificates
          are now expired.  If you're still publishing the X3 hash in
          your TLSA RRSet, it is best removed:

              http://dnssec-stats.ant.isi.edu/~viktor/x3hosts.html

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 2,638,525 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
  ----------                   ----------
  1228949 one.com              1227082 one.com            
   150486 transip.nl            150090 transip.nl         
   150288 argewebhosting.nl     149333 argewebhosting.nl  
   110793 infomaniak.ch         108672 infomaniak.ch      
   104816 domeneshop.no         104762 domeneshop.no      
    99494 webhostingserver.nl    99669 webhostingserver.nl
    93948 loopia.se              93660 loopia.se          
    69464 forpsi.com             68752 forpsi.com         
    41882 active24.com           41710 active24.com       
    39617 webreus.nl             39907 webreus.nl         
    38179 pcextreme.nl           38426 pcextreme.nl       
    37449 antagonist.nl          37231 antagonist.nl      
    37023 zxcs.nl                35720 zxcs.nl            
    29200 vevida.com             29296 vevida.com         
    27706 webhosting.dk          27736 webhosting.dk      
    26564 web4u.cz               26588 web4u.cz           
    26255 udmedia.de             25968 udmedia.de         
    25168 hosting2go.nl          25447 hosting2go.nl      
    18914 bhosted.nl             18827 bhosted.nl         
    18594 protonmail.ch          17855 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
  ----------               ----------
   8677 TOTAL               8579 TOTAL             
   2631 DE, Germany         2595 DE, Germany       
   1664 US, United States   1650 US, United States 
   1644 NL, Netherlands     1648 NL, Netherlands   
    636 FR, France           631 FR, France        
    328 GB, United Kingdom   313 GB, United Kingdom
    224 CZ, Czechia          226 CZ, Czechia       
    201 CA, Canada           197 CA, Canada        
    167 FI, Finland          165 FI, Finland       
    124 DK, Denmark          125 DK, Denmark       
    120 SG, Singapore        116 SG, Singapore     
    100 SE, Sweden            95 SE, Sweden        
     98 CH, Switzerland       95 CH, Switzerland   
     79 AU, Australia         75 AU, Australia     
     73 AT, Austria           70 AT, Austria       
     44 PL, Poland            45 PL, Poland        
     41 IE, Ireland           39 NO, Norway        
     39 NO, Norway            39 BR, Brazil        
     37 BR, Brazil            38 JP, Japan         
     36 JP, Japan             37 IE, Ireland       
     35 RU, Russia            36 IN, India         

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
  ----------               ----------
   6851 TOTAL               6806 TOTAL             
   3253 NL, Netherlands     3268 NL, Netherlands   
   1802 DE, Germany         1782 DE, Germany       
    664 US, United States    659 US, United States 
    296 FR, France           299 FR, France        
    145 CZ, Czechia          147 GB, United Kingdom
    142 GB, United Kingdom   134 CZ, Czechia       
     76 FI, Finland           52 CA, Canada        
     58 CA, Canada            46 SG, Singapore     
     45 SG, Singapore         46 SE, Sweden        
     44 CH, Switzerland       46 CH, Switzerland   
     43 SE, Sweden            42 RU, Russia        
     29 AT, Austria           33 FI, Finland       
     28 AU, Australia         26 AU, Australia     
     27 RU, Russia            26 AT, Austria       
     26 JP, Japan             24 JP, Japan         
     17 NO, Norway            17 NO, Norway        
     17 IE, Ireland           17 DK, Denmark       
     17 DK, Denmark           16 IE, Ireland       
     14 BR, Brazil            14 BR, Brazil        
     12 PL, Poland            10 SI, Slovenia      

There are 7,053 unique zones (6,934 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 15,479 (15,467 last
month).  These cover 15,711 distinct MX hosts (15,701 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 475 (this is my ad-hoc criterion for a
domain being a large-enough actively used email domain).  Of these, 291
are in recent (last 90 days of) reports (see [2] below my signature).

Of the ~2.64 million domains, 12,757 (12,852 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 1976
(1999 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 1295 (1298 last
month).  The top 10 name server operators with problem domains are:

  This month                  Last month
  ----------                  ----------
  509 registrar-servers.com  485 registrar-servers.com
  122 axc.nl                 119 axc.nl               
   93 ebola.cz                94 ebola.cz             
   45 epik.com                48 yourict.net          
   32 mijndomein.nl           45 epik.com             
   29 made-easy.ch            29 mijndomein.nl        
   24 tiscomhosting.nl        29 made-easy.ch         
   22 cloudflare.com          25 tiscomhosting.nl     
   18 movenext.nl             18 movenext.nl          
   17 openprovider.nl         17 infracom.nl          
   17 WORLDNIC.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.

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

  frontmta.com.br
  bncr.fi.cr
  sauditelecom.com.sa
  kmutt.ac.th

--
      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                   duo.nl
gmx.at                        jpberlin.de              expeditionfestival.nl
idec.at                       kabelmail.de             ezorg.nl
triodos.be                    lrz.de                   herinneringenoplinnen.nl
clubedohardware.com.br        mail.de                  hr.nl
contactflex.com.br            mensa.de                 huizenzoeker.nl
corridaeaventura.com.br       mpg.de                   interim-netwerk.nl
nic.br                        posteo.de                mailplus.nl
registro.br                   ruhr-uni-bochum.de       mailshover.nl
gmx.ch                        tum.de                   markteffectmail.nl
hostpoint.ch                  uni-erlangen.de          mijnsalon.nl
infomaniak.ch                 uni-muenchen.de          mijnuvt.nl
open.ch                       unitymedia.de            minbuza.nl
protonmail.ch                 web.de                   minbzk.nl
switch.ch                     westlotto.de             mindef.nl
travailler-en-suisse.ch       actie.deals              mkbbelangen.nl
simplelogin.co                bridgewalking.dk         mm1.nl
ansigtsyogaonline.com         dfi.dk                   ns.nl
connectsb.com                 dk-hostmaster.dk         ongehoordnederland.nl
dailyplaylists.com            fibianet.dk              ouderportaal.nl
datev.com                     handelsbanken.dk         overheid.nl
digitalelections.com          netic.dk                 partijvoordedieren.nl
ecstase.com                   shapeit.dk               politie.nl
exegy.com                     stil.dk                  powerslim.nl
flaneurhomme.com              uni-c.dk                 pp-prd.nl
gmx.com                       uvm.dk                   previder.nl
habr.com                      tilburguniversity.edu    provalue.nl
horagames.com                 emta.ee                  rijksoverheid.nl
hotelsinduitsland.com         holt.ee                  rivm.nl
imcnig.com                    just.ee                  rotterdam.nl
infomaniak.com                lugeja.ee                rvo.nl
ingthink.com                  riigikogu.ee             sans-mail.nl
jula.com                      rmit.ee                  schoudercom.nl
kpn.com                       envie.email              schuurman-schoenen.nl
leszexpertsfle.com            spike.email              sportrusten.nl
mail.com                      spotler.email            ssonet.nl
mammoetmail.com               rediris.es               telefoonglaasje.nl
matilhadobemadestramento.com  triodos.es               triodos.nl
mx-relay.com                  uv.es                    truetickets.nl
nine-pine.com                 litebit.eu               uitgeverijpica.nl
one.com                       transadvise.eu           utwente.nl
orverkiezing.com              zone.eu                  uvt.nl
outsystems.com                zonevs.eu                uwv.nl
protonmail.com                handelsbanken.fi         veilinghuispeerdeman.nl
protonvpn.com                 traficom.fi              voorpositiviteit.nl
sankakucomplex.com            ac-strasbourg.fr         vu.nl
schizinfo.com                 compagnie-des-sens.fr    waternet.nl
societe.com                   oo2.fr                   xs4all.nl
solvinity.com                 srci.fr                  zorgmail.nl
stellarequipment.com          fidesz.hu                annabellstefanussen.no
t-2.com                       mszp.hu                  audi.no
thalesgroup.com               pm.me                    derute.no
thepcw.com                    army.mil                 domeneshop.no
triodos.com                   dla.mil                  handelsbanken.no
ugritone.com                  jten.mil                 idrettenonline.no
veganallsorts.com             mail.mil                 nordicprint.no
vitstore.com                  militaryonesource.mil    norskgrammatikk.no
webcruiter.com                navy.mil                 uib.no
xfinity.com                   nga.mil                  viphuset.no
xfinityhomesecurity.com       osd.mil                  webcruitermail.no
xfinitymobile.com             socom.mil                atelkamera.nu
active24.cz                   uscg.mil                 goget.nu
akce-incomputer.cz            usmc.mil                 aegee.org
bewooden.cz                   comcast.net              debian.org
colours.cz                    gmx.net                  freebsd.org
cuni.cz                       habramail.net            gentoo.org
ekokoza.cz                    hr-manager.net           ietf.org
gigalekarna.cz                inexio.net               irtf.org
itesco.cz                     mijngezondheid.net       isc.org
klenotyaurum.cz               mpssec.net               mailbox.org
klubpevnehozdravi.cz          procurios.net            mailop.org
manymail.cz                   ripe.net                 mkpbelgium.org
nic.cz                        riseup.net               netbsd.org
omvnovinky.cz                 t-2.net                  openssl.org
onebit.cz                     transip.net              ozlabs.org
optimail.cz                   triodos.net              samba.org
poptavej.cz                   xs4all.net               torproject.org
reserved.cz                   xworks.net               whatpulse.org
scrptd.cz                     123watches.nl            psgaz.pl
server4u.cz                   50plusbeurs.nl           asf.com.pt
smtp.cz                       amsterdam.nl             mobily.com.sa
stoklasa.cz                   argeweb.nl               bilprovningen.se
toplist.cz                    awcloud.nl               boplatssyd-automail.se
vas-server.cz                 belastingdienst.nl       ecster.se
vcelka.cz                     bhosted.nl               handelsbanken.se
virusfree.cz                  bhsupport.nl             loopia.se
zdravestravovani.cz           bibliotheekdenhaag.nl    matlistan.se
bayern.de                     bluerail.nl              minmyndighetspost.se
brandenburg.de                boekwinkeltjes.nl        personligalmanacka.se
bund.de                       bolerolimonadewinkel.nl  skatteverket.se
bundesregierung.de            boozyshop.nl             teknikdelar.se
datev.de                      burgernet.nl             theletter.se
dfn.de                        corpoflow.nl             pneusvet.sk
ekom21.de                     denhaag.nl               triodos.co.uk
elster.de                     derooijfotografie.nl     govtrack.us
fau.de                        dictu.nl                 quantum-services.us
freenet.de                    digid.nl                 ru.ac.za


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