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when I said privacy I was had NSEC3 in mind. To be honest I have no idea how does it work / why is it a thing but it looks like it obfuscates (deleted?) subdomains to make it harder to enumerate them. This is why you see stuff like

    15bg9l6359f5ch23e34ddua6n1rihl9h.example.org
in zone file

Right. That doesn't really work: you can crack them like a 1990s password file, which is why there's whitelies (online-signer chaff records) to defeat that attack. Either way: it's not really what people think about when they think "privacy". It's generally the position of the architects of DNSSEC that domain names simply aren't private at all. Meanwhile: actual DNS privacy, of what domains you're visiting with your browser, is provided by DoH, not DNSSEC.

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