| 236 | Standard host namesJ. Postel | Unknown | September 1971 |
| 247 | Proffered set of standard host namesP.M. Karp | Unknown | October 1971 |
| 799 | Internet name domainsD.L. Mills | Unknown | September 1981 |
| 810 | DoD Internet host table specificationE.J. Feinler, K. Harrenstien, Z. Su, V. White · obsoleted by RFC 952 | Unknown | March 1982 |
| 881 | Domain names plan and scheduleJ. Postel | Unknown | November 1983 |
| 882 | Domain names: Concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris · obsoleted by RFC 1034, RFC 1035 | Unknown | November 1983 |
| 883 | Domain names: Implementation specificationP. Mockapetris · obsoleted by RFC 1034, RFC 1035 | Unknown | November 1983 |
| 952 | DoD Internet host table specificationK. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler | Unknown | October 1985 |
| 953 | Hostname ServerK. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler | Historic | October 1985 |
| 974 | Mail routing and the domain systemC. Partridge · obsoleted by RFC 2821 | Historic | January 1986 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1123 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and SupportR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1464 | Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String AttributesR. Rosenbaum | Experimental | May 1993 |
| 1518 | An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDRY. Rekhter, T. Li | Historic | September 1993 |
| 1591 | Domain Name System Structure and DelegationJ. Postel | Informational | March 1994 |
| 1996 | A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY)P. Vixie | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 2671 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0)P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 6891 | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2672 | Non-Terminal DNS Name RedirectionM. Crawford · obsoleted by RFC 6672 | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2673 | Binary Labels in the Domain Name SystemM. Crawford · obsoleted by RFC 6891 | Historic | August 1999 |
| 3490 | Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)P. Faltstrom, P. Hoffman, A. Costello · obsoleted by RFC 5890, RFC 5891 | Proposed Standard | March 2003 |
| 3491 | Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet · obsoleted by RFC 5891 | Proposed Standard | March 2003 |
| 3596 | DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6S. Thomson, C. Huitema, V. Ksinant, M. Souissi | Internet Standard | October 2003 |
| 3743 | Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and KoreanK. Konishi, K. Huang, H. Qian, Y. Ko | Informational | April 2004 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 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 |
| 4343 | Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity ClarificationD. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | January 2006 |
| 5890 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document FrameworkJ. Klensin | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 5891 | Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): ProtocolJ. Klensin | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 6672 | DNAME Redirection in the DNSS. Rose, W. Wijngaards | Proposed Standard | June 2012 |
| 6761 | Special-Use Domain NamesS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))J. Damas, M. Graff, P. Vixie | Internet Standard | April 2013 |
| 6895 | Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd | Best Current Practice | April 2013 |
| 6912 | Principles for Unicode Code Point Inclusion in Labels in the DNSA. Sullivan, D. Thaler, J. Klensin, O. Kolkman | Informational | April 2013 |
| 7094 | Architectural Considerations of IP AnycastD. McPherson, D. Oran, D. Thaler, E. Osterweil | Informational | January 2014 |
| 7706 | Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on LoopbackW. Kumari, P. Hoffman · obsoleted by RFC 8806 | Informational | November 2015 |
| 7719 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 8499 | Informational | December 2015 |
| 7816 | DNS Query Name Minimisation to Improve PrivacyS. Bortzmeyer · obsoleted by RFC 9156 | Experimental | March 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 |
| 7872 | Observations on the Dropping of Packets with IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real WorldF. Gont, J. Linkova, T. Chown, W. Liu | Informational | June 2016 |
| 8244 | Special-Use Domain Names Problem StatementT. Lemon, R. Droms, W. Kumari | Informational | October 2017 |