| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1995 | Incremental Zone Transfer in DNSM. Ohta | 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 |
| 2845 | Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)P. Vixie, O. Gudmundsson, D. Eastlake 3rd, B. Wellington · obsoleted by RFC 8945 | Proposed Standard | May 2000 |
| 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 |
| 5155 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of ExistenceB. Laurie, G. Sisson, R. Arends, D. Blacka | Proposed Standard | March 2008 |
| 5731 | Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name MappingS. Hollenbeck | Internet Standard | August 2009 |
| 5936 | DNS Zone Transfer Protocol (AXFR)E. Lewis, A. Hoenes, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6781 | DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2O. Kolkman, W. Mekking, R. Gieben | Informational | December 2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 8078 | Managing DS Records from the Parent via CDS/CDNSKEYO. Gudmundsson, P. Wouters | Proposed Standard | March 2017 |
| 8198 | Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated CacheK. Fujiwara, A. Kato, W. Kumari | Proposed Standard | July 2017 |
| 8484 | DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)P. Hoffman, P. McManus | Proposed Standard | October 2018 |
| 8499 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 9499 | Best Current Practice | January 2019 |