| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1982 | Serial Number ArithmeticR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | August 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 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2931 | DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s )D. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 5155 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of ExistenceB. Laurie, G. Sisson, R. Arends, D. Blacka | Proposed Standard | March 2008 |
| 5936 | DNS Zone Transfer Protocol (AXFR)E. Lewis, A. Hoenes, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))J. Damas, M. Graff, P. Vixie | Internet Standard | April 2013 |
| 6973 | Privacy Considerations for Internet ProtocolsA. Cooper, H. Tschofenig, B. Aboba, J. Peterson, J. Morris, M. Hansen, R. Smith | Informational | July 2013 |
| 7766 | DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation RequirementsJ. Dickinson, S. Dickinson, R. Bellis, A. Mankin, D. Wessels | Proposed Standard | March 2016 |
| 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 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8310 | Usage Profiles for DNS over TLS and DNS over DTLSS. Dickinson, D. Gillmor, T. Reddy | Proposed Standard | March 2018 |
| 8446 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 9846 | Proposed Standard | August 2018 |
| 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 |
| 8914 | Extended DNS ErrorsW. Kumari, E. Hunt, R. Arends, W. Hardaker, D. Lawrence | Proposed Standard | October 2020 |
| 8945 | Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)F. Dupont, S. Morris, P. Vixie, D. Eastlake 3rd, O. Gudmundsson, B. Wellington | Internet Standard | November 2020 |
| 8976 | Message Digest for DNS ZonesD. Wessels, P. Barber, M. Weinberg, W. Kumari, W. Hardaker | Proposed Standard | February 2021 |
| 9076 | DNS Privacy ConsiderationsT. Wicinski, Ed. | Informational | July 2021 |