kika.de

.de country-code

Found

TLD

.de (country-code)

ICANN policies apply

no

Checks

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  .de is a country-code TLD (ccTLD)

  Country-code TLD: governed by its local registry under national policy, not by an ICANN contract. Registrar accreditation, dispute resolution and RDAP/WHOIS rules are set by the registry.

  #1
• ✓ TLD delegated and signed #2

  .de is delegated in the root zone and DNSSEC-signed.
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  Registration data not available

  No registration data via RDAP: the registry of .de offers no RDAP service. Many ccTLD registries don't offer RDAP; check the registry's WHOIS instead.

  #3

deneb.dfn.de, hinkelstein.mdr.de, hinkelstein2.mdr.de, news.uni-leipzig.de

Found

Parent zone

de

Delegation from

a.nic.de (194.0.0.53)

NS at the parent

deneb.dfn.de, hinkelstein.mdr.de, hinkelstein2.mdr.de, news.uni-leipzig.de

NS in the zone

deneb.dfn.de, hinkelstein.mdr.de, hinkelstein2.mdr.de, news.uni-leipzig.de

Checks

• ✓ 4 nameservers #6

  Delegated to deneb.dfn.de, hinkelstein.mdr.de, hinkelstein2.mdr.de, news.uni-leipzig.de.
• ✓ Parent and zone agree #7

  The parent delegation and the zone's NS records list the same nameservers.
• ✓ No glue needed #8

  All nameservers are outside the zone, so no glue records are needed.
• ✓ All names resolve #9

  Every nameserver name has an address and is not an alias.
• ✓ Nameservers in different networks #10

  The nameservers are spread over 4 IPv4 /24s and 1 IPv6 /48.
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  All nameservers in one AS

  All nameserver addresses are announced by one network operator (AS680 (DFN - Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V., DE): 5 addresses). An outage or attack on that network affects all nameservers; large anycast providers mitigate this, but a secondary DNS provider adds independence.

  #11
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  All nameserver names under .de

  All nameserver names are under one TLD, so a problem with that TLD also makes the nameservers unreachable. Some operators use names under two TLDs for extra resilience.

  #12
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  Partly IPv6

  These nameservers have no IPv6 address: hinkelstein.mdr.de, hinkelstein2.mdr.de, news.uni-leipzig.de.

  #13

5 of 5 addresses answer authoritatively

Found

Checks

• ✓ All respond #14

  All 5 nameserver addresses answered.
• ✓ All authoritative #15

  Every responding nameserver answers authoritatively for the zone.
• ✓ No recursion #16

  The nameservers do not answer recursive queries for other domains.
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  Identifying string disclosed

  These nameservers answer version queries with a string that is not a version number: deneb.dfn.de: "0"; hinkelstein.mdr.de: "Unknown"; hinkelstein2.mdr.de: "Unknown"; news.uni-leipzig.de: ":-) ???".

  #17
• ✓ Zone transfers refused #18

  No nameserver allows a zone transfer to the public.
• ✓ TCP supported #19

  All nameservers answer over TCP.
• ✓ EDNS supported #20

  All nameservers support EDNS(0).
• ✓ Public addresses #21

  All nameserver addresses are publicly routable.

serial 2026100607 · primary hinkelstein1.mdr.de

Found

Primary (MNAME)

hinkelstein1.mdr.de

Contact (RNAME)

hostmaster.mdr.de

Serial

2026100607

Refresh / retry

86400 s / 7200 s

Expire

604800 s

Negative TTL

1200 s

Serial per nameserver

Checks

• ✓ Serial 2026100607 everywhere #22

  All nameservers serve the same version of the zone.
• ✓ Timers within recommendations #23

  SOA refresh 1d, retry 2h, expire 7d, negative TTL 20m.
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  Hidden master

  The primary nameserver hinkelstein1.mdr.de is not listed as a nameserver: a hidden master that only feeds the public secondaries. That is a common setup; make sure it is not reachable for zone transfers from outside.

  #24
• ✓ Contact hostmaster@mdr.de #25

  The SOA RNAME hostmaster.mdr.de means hostmaster@mdr.de.
• ✓ Date-based serial #26

  The serial 2026100607 follows the YYYYMMDDnn convention (2026-10-06).

16 records at the apex

Found

Read from

192.76.176.9:53

Checks

• ✓ TTLs within range #32

  TTLs: A 1d, MX 1d, NS 1d.
• ✓ No CNAME at the apex #33

  The zone apex has no CNAME record.
• ✓ No wildcard #34

  Names that don't exist return NXDOMAIN.
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  No CAA records

  Without CAA records any certificate authority may issue certificates for this domain. A CAA record limits issuance to the CAs you use.

  #35