| 20 | ASCII format for network interchangeV.G. Cerf | Internet Standard | October 1969 |
| 819 | The Domain Naming Convention for Internet User ApplicationsZ. Su, J. Postel | Unknown | August 1982 |
| 882 | Domain names: Concepts and facilitiesP. 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 |
| 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 |
| 1713 | Tools for DNS debuggingA. Romao | Informational | November 1994 |
| 1912 | Common DNS Operational and Configuration ErrorsD. Barr | Informational | February 1996 |
| 1995 | Incremental Zone Transfer in DNSM. Ohta | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 1996 | A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY)P. Vixie | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 2136 | Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)P. Vixie, Ed., S. Thomson, Y. Rekhter, J. Bound | Proposed Standard | April 1997 |
| 2181 | Clarifications to the DNS SpecificationR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | July 1997 |
| 2182 | Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS ServersR. Elz, R. Bush, S. Bradner, M. Patton | Best Current Practice | July 1997 |
| 2308 | Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)M. Andrews | Proposed Standard | March 1998 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 3172 | Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")G. Huston, Ed. | Best Current Practice | September 2001 |
| 3425 | Obsoleting IQUERYD. Lawrence | Proposed Standard | November 2002 |
| 3493 | Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, J. McCann, W. Stevens | Informational | March 2003 |
| 3757 | Domain Name System KEY (DNSKEY) Resource Record (RR) Secure Entry Point (SEP) FlagO. Kolkman, J. Schlyter, E. Lewis · obsoleted by RFC 4033, RFC 4034, RFC 4035 | Proposed Standard | May 2004 |
| 3912 | WHOIS Protocol SpecificationL. Daigle | Draft Standard | September 2004 |
| 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 |
| 4592 | The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name SystemE. Lewis | Proposed Standard | July 2006 |
| 4641 | DNSSEC Operational PracticesO. Kolkman, R. Gieben · obsoleted by RFC 6781 | Informational | September 2006 |
| 4697 | Observed DNS Resolution MisbehaviorM. Larson, P. Barber | Best Current Practice | October 2006 |
| 4786 | Operation of Anycast ServicesJ. Abley, K. Lindqvist | Best Current Practice | December 2006 |
| 4956 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Opt-InR. Arends, M. Kosters, D. Blacka | Experimental | July 2007 |
| 5155 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of ExistenceB. Laurie, G. Sisson, R. Arends, D. Blacka | Proposed Standard | March 2008 |
| 5358 | Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector AttacksJ. Damas, F. Neves | Best Current Practice | October 2008 |
| 5625 | DNS Proxy Implementation GuidelinesR. Bellis | Best Current Practice | August 2009 |
| 5730 | Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)S. Hollenbeck | Internet Standard | August 2009 |
| 5731 | Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name MappingS. Hollenbeck | Internet Standard | August 2009 |
| 5855 | Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse ZonesJ. Abley, T. Manderson | Best Current Practice | May 2010 |
| 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 |
| 5892 | The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)P. Faltstrom, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 5893 | Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA)H. Alvestrand, Ed., C. Karp | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 5894 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation, and RationaleJ. Klensin | Informational | August 2010 |
| 5936 | DNS Zone Transfer Protocol (AXFR)E. Lewis, A. Hoenes, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6055 | IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain NamesD. Thaler, J. Klensin, S. Cheshire | Informational | February 2011 |
| 6265 | HTTP State Management MechanismA. Barth | Proposed Standard | April 2011 |
| 6303 | Locally Served DNS ZonesM. Andrews | Best Current Practice | July 2011 |
| 6335 | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number RegistryM. Cotton, L. Eggert, J. Touch, M. Westerlund, S. Cheshire | Best Current Practice | August 2011 |
| 6365 | Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETFP. Hoffman, J. Klensin | Best Current Practice | September 2011 |
| 6561 | Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in ISP NetworksJ. Livingood, N. Mody, M. O'Reirdan | Informational | March 2012 |
| 6672 | DNAME Redirection in the DNSS. Rose, W. Wijngaards | Proposed Standard | June 2012 |
| 6762 | Multicast DNSS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6781 | DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2O. Kolkman, W. Mekking, R. Gieben | Informational | December 2012 |
| 6840 | Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNS Security (DNSSEC)S. Weiler, Ed., D. Blacka, Ed. | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6841 | A Framework for DNSSEC Policies and DNSSEC Practice StatementsF. Ljunggren, AM. Eklund Lowinder, T. Okubo | Informational | January 2013 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))J. Damas, M. Graff, P. Vixie | Internet Standard | April 2013 |
| 7129 | Authenticated Denial of Existence in the DNSR. Gieben, W. Mekking | Informational | February 2014 |
| 7344 | Automating DNSSEC Delegation Trust MaintenanceW. Kumari, O. Gudmundsson, G. Barwood | Proposed Standard | September 2014 |
| 7480 | HTTP Usage in the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)A. Newton, B. Ellacott, N. Kong | Internet Standard | March 2015 |
| 7481 | Security Services for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)S. Hollenbeck, N. Kong | Internet Standard | March 2015 |
| 7482 | Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Query FormatA. Newton, S. Hollenbeck · obsoleted by RFC 9082 | Proposed Standard | March 2015 |
| 7483 | JSON Responses for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)A. Newton, S. Hollenbeck · obsoleted by RFC 9083 | Proposed Standard | March 2015 |
| 7484 | Finding the Authoritative Registration Data (RDAP) ServiceM. Blanchet · obsoleted by RFC 9224 | Proposed Standard | March 2015 |
| 7485 | Inventory and Analysis of WHOIS Registration ObjectsL. Zhou, N. Kong, S. Shen, S. Sheng, A. Servin | Informational | March 2015 |
| 7719 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 8499 | Informational | December 2015 |
| 7793 | Adding 100.64.0.0/10 Prefixes to the IPv4 Locally-Served DNS Zones RegistryM. Andrews | Best Current Practice | May 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 |
| 8094 | DNS over Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)T. Reddy, D. Wing, P. Patil | Experimental | February 2017 |
| 8109 | Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming QueriesP. Koch, M. Larson, P. Hoffman · obsoleted by RFC 9609 | Best Current Practice | March 2017 |
| 8310 | Usage Profiles for DNS over TLS and DNS over DTLSS. Dickinson, D. Gillmor, T. Reddy | Proposed Standard | March 2018 |
| 8484 | DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)P. Hoffman, P. McManus | Proposed Standard | October 2018 |