| 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 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 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 |
| 4035 | Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4686 | Analysis of Threats Motivating DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)J. Fenton | Informational | September 2006 |
| 4697 | Observed DNS Resolution MisbehaviorM. Larson, P. Barber | Best Current Practice | October 2006 |
| 4732 | Internet Denial-of-Service ConsiderationsM. Handley, Ed., E. Rescorla, Ed., IAB | Informational | December 2006 |
| 5452 | Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged AnswersA. Hubert, R. van Mook | Proposed Standard | January 2009 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))J. Damas, M. Graff, P. Vixie | Internet Standard | April 2013 |
| 7766 | DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation RequirementsJ. Dickinson, S. Dickinson, R. Bellis, A. Mankin, D. Wessels | Proposed Standard | 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 |
| 7873 | Domain Name System (DNS) CookiesD. Eastlake 3rd, M. Andrews | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8484 | DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)P. Hoffman, P. McManus | Proposed Standard | October 2018 |
| 8767 | Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS ResiliencyD. Lawrence, W. Kumari, P. Sood | Proposed Standard | March 2020 |
| 8914 | Extended DNS ErrorsW. Kumari, E. Hunt, R. Arends, W. Hardaker, D. Lawrence | Proposed Standard | October 2020 |
| 9250 | DNS over Dedicated QUIC ConnectionsC. Huitema, S. Dickinson, A. Mankin | Proposed Standard | May 2022 |