Update on stats 2021-08

Viktor Dukhovni ietf-dane at dukhovni.org
Wed Sep 1 06:25:40 CEST 2021


Summary:  The DANE domain count is now 2,779,500 (up from 2,653,718 last month).

          The number of domains that return DNSSEC-validated replies in
          response to MX queries is 16,107,719 (up from 15,663,538 last
          month).  Thus DANE TLSA is deployed on ~17.26% of domains with
          DNSSEC.  See https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/ for more stats.

          [ A major part of the increase in both DNSSEC and DANE domains is
            a result of a significant expansion of use of DNSSEC among .CH
            domains, particularly at hostpoint.ch and infomaniak.ch.

            Congratulations and thanks to both and also switch.ch.

            The .CH TLD is now the 9th largest by count of signed
            delegations in the survey dataset, just behind .NO, perhaps
            not for long, if the present growth rate holds up. ]

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 2,779,500 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
  ----------                   ----------
  1225124 one.com              1227184 one.com
   152779 transip.nl            151493 transip.nl
   150719 argewebhosting.nl     150376 argewebhosting.nl
   148426 infomaniak.ch         114457 infomaniak.ch
   105493 domeneshop.no         105236 domeneshop.no
    98765 webhostingserver.nl    98871 webhostingserver.nl
    94403 loopia.se              94187 loopia.se
    86961 hostpoint.ch           70345 forpsi.com
    70606 forpsi.com             42190 active24.com
    46019 active24.com           39057 zxcs.nl
    40474 zxcs.nl                38973 webreus.nl
    40396 webreus.nl             37753 antagonist.nl
    37911 antagonist.nl          37509 pcextreme.nl
    37226 pcextreme.nl           28712 vevida.com
    28411 vevida.com             27550 webhosting.dk
    27416 webhosting.dk          26580 web4u.cz
    26691 udmedia.de             26555 udmedia.de
    26509 web4u.cz               24671 hosting2go.nl
    24443 hosting2go.nl          19910 protonmail.ch
    20574 protonmail.ch          18975 bhosted.nl

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
  ----------               ----------
  8890 TOTAL               8815 TOTAL
  2655 DE, Germany         2631 DE, Germany
  1715 US, United States   1693 US, United States
  1686 NL, Netherlands     1676 NL, Netherlands
   654 FR, France           662 FR, France
   330 GB, United Kingdom   313 GB, United Kingdom
   226 CZ, Czechia          226 CZ, Czechia
   202 CA, Canada           206 CA, Canada
   185 FI, Finland          174 FI, Finland
   125 DK, Denmark          124 DK, Denmark
   114 SG, Singapore        122 SG, Singapore
   107 CH, Switzerland      106 CH, Switzerland
    99 SE, Sweden           102 SE, Sweden
    88 AU, Australia         84 AU, Australia
    84 AT, Austria           76 AT, Austria
    44 PL, Poland            41 RU, Russia
    43 IE, Ireland           41 PL, Poland
    40 RU, Russia            41 IE, Ireland
    40 BR, Brazil            40 NO, Norway
    39 NO, Norway            40 BR, Brazil
    35 IT, Italy             38 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
  ----------               ----------
  7009 TOTAL               6948 TOTAL
  3336 NL, Netherlands     3301 NL, Netherlands
  1826 DE, Germany         1810 DE, Germany
   714 US, United States    710 US, United States
   290 FR, France           297 FR, France
   145 CZ, Czechia          154 CZ, Czechia
   136 GB, United Kingdom   137 GB, United Kingdom
    74 FI, Finland           71 FI, Finland
    59 CA, Canada            61 CA, Canada
    47 CH, Switzerland       44 SG, Singapore
    44 SE, Sweden            43 SE, Sweden
    42 SG, Singapore         42 CH, Switzerland
    30 AU, Australia         32 AU, Australia
    29 AT, Austria           29 AT, Austria
    26 RU, Russia            27 JP, Japan
    23 JP, Japan             20 IE, Ireland
    21 IE, Ireland           17 RU, Russia
    17 DK, Denmark           17 DK, Denmark
    16 NO, Norway            16 NO, Norway
    14 BR, Brazil            14 BR, Brazil
    11 SI, Slovenia          12 IN, India

There are 7,242 unique zones (7,168 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 15,791 (15,673 last
month).  These cover 16,039 distinct MX hosts (15,908 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 517 (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 ~2.78 million DANE domains, 12,794 (12,719 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 1298
(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 1298 (1329 last
month).  The top 10 name server operators with problem domains are:

  This month                  Last month
  ----------                  ----------
  542 registrar-servers.com  548 registrar-servers.com
  119 axc.nl                 119 axc.nl
   89 ebola.cz                88 ebola.cz
   59 westgatehosting.com     48 epik.com
   49 netcup.net              28 made-easy.ch
   46 epik.com                27 mijndomein.nl
   30 made-easy.ch            26 3zy.de
   27 mijndomein.nl           24 tiscomhosting.nl
   19 cloudflare.com          22 netcup.net
   15 worldnic.com            20 cloudflare.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.

Five 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
  pedulilindungi.id
  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                  followerpilot.de         healthcheckcenter.nl
gmx.at                        freenet.de               herinneringenoplinnen.nl
triodos.be                    gmx.de                   hetamsterdamsverbond.nl
cetelemnegocie.com.br         jpberlin.de              hostingpeople.nl
clubedohardware.com.br        lmu.de                   interconnect.nl
corridaeaventura.com.br       lrz.de                   interim-netwerk.nl
nic.br                        mail.de                  luxiez.nl
registro.br                   mensa.de                 mailplus.nl
pdac.ca                       mpg.de                   markteffectmail.nl
gmx.ch                        neutraler-versand.de     mijnuvt.nl
hostpoint.ch                  posteo.de                minbuza.nl
infomaniak.ch                 ruhr-uni-bochum.de       minbzk.nl
linsenkontakt.ch              tum.de                   mindef.nl
open.ch                       tutanota.de              mkbbelangen.nl
protonmail.ch                 uni-erlangen.de          mm1.nl
switch.ch                     uni-muenchen.de          mulderretail.nl
travailler-en-suisse.ch       unitymedia.de            nieuwsservice-rvo.nl
wog.ch                        web.de                   ns.nl
simplelogin.co                westlotto.de             ouderportaal.nl
beaconx.com                   actie.deals              overheid.nl
connectsb.com                 fibianet.dk              parlement.nl
coremultichain.com            fvst.dk                  partijvoordedieren.nl
dailyplaylists.com            handelsbanken.dk         paypro.nl
datev.com                     netic.dk                 politie.nl
flaneurhomme.com              peterhald.dk             powerslim.nl
gmx.com                       shapeit.dk               pp-prd.nl
habr.com                      shellcard.dk             previder.nl
hotelsinduitsland.com         stil.dk                  purdey.nl
imcnig.com                    tilburguniversity.edu    rijksoverheid.nl
infomaniak.com                just.ee                  rotterdam.nl
ingthink.com                  rik.ee                   sans-mail.nl
intakt.com                    spam-filter.email        schoudercom.nl
joomlapolis.com               spike.email              schuurman-schoenen.nl
jula.com                      spotler.email            sportrusten.nl
kpn.com                       rediris.es               ssonet.nl
leszexpertsfle.com            triodos.es               telefoonglaasje.nl
mail.com                      uv.es                    triodos.nl
mammoetmail.com               egu.eu                   truetickets.nl
matilhadobemadestramento.com  qard.eu                  tweedekamer.nl
mx-relay.com                  transadvise.eu           uitgeverijpica.nl
mychildlebensborn.com         zone.eu                  utwente.nl
nine-pine.com                 zonevs.eu                uvt.nl
one.com                       handelsbanken.fi         uwv.nl
outsystems.com                tarjousrinki.fi          veilinghuispeerdeman.nl
protonmail.com                ac-strasbourg.fr         vogeldagboek.nl
protonvpn.com                 compagnie-des-sens.fr    voorpositiviteit.nl
sanderrossel.com              edtm-actu.fr             vu.nl
sankakucomplex.com            oo2.fr                   waternet.nl
societe.com                   fidesz.hu                xs4all.nl
solvinity.com                 gardrobom.hu             zorgmail.nl
spareklubbnorge.com           mindigbutor.hu           annabellstefanussen.no
stellarequipment.com          mszp.hu                  audi.no
t-2.com                       popfilm.hu               bergengokart.no
thalesgroup.com               pandi.id                 derute.no
thepcw.com                    interestexplorer.io      domeneshop.no
thepcwholesale.com            pm.me                    handelsbanken.no
triodos.com                   army.mil                 idrettenonline.no
tutanota.com                  dla.mil                  norskgrammatikk.no
veganallsorts.com             jten.mil                 rushtrampoline.no
veoliasophos.com              mail.mil                 uib.no
vitstore.com                  militaryonesource.mil    viphuset.no
webcruiter.com                navy.mil                 atelkamera.nu
xfinity.com                   nga.mil                  goget.nu
xfinityhomesecurity.com       osd.mil                  debian.org
xfinitymobile.com             socom.mil                freebsd.org
30tidennivyzva.cz             uscg.mil                 gentoo.org
active24.cz                   comcast.net              ietf.org
akce-incomputer.cz            fivem.net                isc.org
cuni.cz                       gmx.net                  mailbox.org
ekokoza.cz                    habramail.net            mailop.org
gigalekarna.cz                hr-manager.net           netbsd.org
itesco.cz                     inexio.net               openssl.org
klenotyaurum.cz               mijngezondheid.net       ozlabs.org
klubpevnehozdravi.cz          mpssec.net               samba.org
manymail.cz                   procurios.net            torproject.org
mkluzkoviny.cz                riseup.net               whatpulse.org
nic.cz                        s-qrc.net                psgaz.pl
omvnovinky.cz                 t-2.net                  asf.com.pt
onebit.cz                     transip.net              mobily.com.sa
optimail.cz                   xs4all.net               bilprovningen.se
poptavej.cz                   123watches.nl            boplatssyd-automail.se
reserved.cz                   amsterdam.nl             ecster.se
scrptd.cz                     awcloud.nl               handelsbanken.se
server4u.cz                   belastingdienst.nl       loopia.se
smtp.cz                       bhosted.nl               loopiahosting.se
stoklasa.cz                   bluerail.nl              minmyndighetspost.se
toplist.cz                    boekwinkeltjes.nl        personligalmanacka.se
vas-server.cz                 bolerolimonadewinkel.nl  skatteverket.se
vcelka.cz                     boozyshop.nl             teknikdelar.se
virusfree.cz                  burgernet.nl             theletter.se
zdravestravovani.cz           cbr.nl                   websupport.se
123watches.de                 cbs.nl                   flagranti.sk
bayern.de                     citrusveiling.nl         najlacnejsisport.sk
brandenburg.de                corpoflow.nl             rondogo.sk
bund.de                       derooijfotografie.nl     toptop.sk
bundesregierung.de            digid.nl                 triodos.co.uk
datev.de                      duo.nl                   xepay.co.uk
dfn.de                        edenhotels.nl            govtrack.us
ekom21.de                     efactuurdirect.nl        quantum-services.us
elster.de                     ezorg.nl                 ru.ac.za
fau.de


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