| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2308 | Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)M. Andrews | Proposed Standard | March 1998 |
| 4033 | DNS Security Introduction and RequirementsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4034 | Resource Records for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4035 | Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4786 | Operation of Anycast ServicesJ. Abley, K. Lindqvist | Best Current Practice | December 2006 |
| 6824 | TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple AddressesA. Ford, C. Raiciu, M. Handley, O. Bonaventure · obsoleted by RFC 8684 | Experimental | January 2013 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))J. Damas, M. Graff, P. Vixie | Internet Standard | April 2013 |
| 7646 | Definition and Use of DNSSEC Negative Trust AnchorsP. Ebersman, W. Kumari, C. Griffiths, J. Livingood, R. Weber | Informational | September 2015 |
| 7719 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 8499 | Informational | December 2015 |
| 7828 | The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 OptionP. Wouters, J. Abley, S. Dickinson, R. Bellis | Proposed Standard | April 2016 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7858 | Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)Z. Hu, L. Zhu, J. Heidemann, A. Mankin, D. Wessels, P. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 7873 | Domain Name System (DNS) CookiesD. Eastlake 3rd, M. Andrews | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |