DNS related RFCs An up to date list of Domain Name System RFCs
A hand-picked and up to date collection of Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to the Domain Name System.
For the relationships between the RFCs, please check the diagram of the descent of DNS RFCs.
| RFC | Name | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 9619 | In the DNS, QDCOUNT Is (Usually) One | July 2024 |
| 9615 | Automatic DNSSEC Bootstrapping Using Authenticated Signals from the Zone's Operator | July 2024 |
| 9606 | DNS Resolver Information | June 2024 |
| 9567 | DNS Error Reporting | April 2024 |
| 9558 | Use of GOST 2012 Signature Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC | April 2024 |
| 9539 | Unilateral Opportunistic Deployment of Encrypted Recursive-to-Authoritative DNS | February 2024 |
| 9526 | Simple Provisioning of Public Names for Residential Networks | January 2024 |
| 9520 | Negative Caching of DNS Resolution Failures | December 2023 |
| 9499 | DNS Terminology | March 2024 |
| 9471 | DNS Glue Requirements in Referral Responses | September 2023 |
| 9432 | DNS Catalog Zones | July 2023 |
| 9364 | DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) | February 2023 |
| 9276 | Guidance for NSEC3 Parameter Settings | August 2022 |
| 9267 | Common Implementation Anti-Patterns Related to Domain Name System (DNS) Resource Record (RR) Processing | July 2022 |
| 9250 | DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections | May 2022 |
| 9230 | Oblivious DNS over HTTPS | June 2022 |
| 9210 | DNS Transport over TCP - Operational Requirements | March 2022 |
| 9199 | Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators | March 2022 |
| 9157 | Revised IANA Considerations for DNSSEC | December 2021 |
| 9156 | DNS Query Name Minimisation to Improve Privacy | November 2021 |
| 9120 | Nameservers for the Address and Routing Parameter Area ("arpa") Domain | October 2021 |
| 9108 | YANG Types for DNS Classes and Resource Record Types | September 2021 |
| 9103 | DNS Zone Transfer over TLS | August 2021 |
| 9102 | TLS DNSSEC Chain Extension | August 2021 |
| 9077 | NSEC and NSEC3: TTLs and Aggressive Use | July 2021 |
| 9076 | DNS Privacy Considerations | July 2021 |
| 9018 | Interoperable Domain Name System (DNS) Server Cookies | April 2021 |
| 8976 | Message Digest for DNS Zones | February 2021 |
| 8945 | Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG) | November 2020 |
| 8932 | Recommendations for DNS Privacy Service Operators | October 2020 |
| 8914 | Extended DNS Errors | October 2020 |
| 8906 | A Common Operational Problem in DNS Servers: Failure to Communicate | September 2020 |
| 8901 | Multi-Signer DNSSEC Models | September 2020 |
| 8882 | DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) Privacy and Security Requirements | September 2020 |
| 8880 | Special Use Domain Name 'ipv4only.arpa' | August 2020 |
| 8806 | Running a Root Server Local to a Resolver | June 2020 |
| 8777 | DNS Reverse IP Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) Discovery | April 2020 |
| 8767 | Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS Resiliency | March 2020 |
| 8749 | Moving DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) to Historic Status | March 2020 |
| 8659 | DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record | November 2019 |
| 8624 | Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for DNSSEC | June 2019 |
| 8618 | Compacted-DNS (C-DNS): A Format for DNS Packet Capture | September 2019 |
| 8598 | Split DNS Configuration for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2) | May 2019 |
| 8567 | Customer Management DNS Resource Records | April 2019 |
| 8553 | DNS Attrleaf Changes: Fixing Specifications That Use Underscored Node Names | March 2019 |
| 8552 | Scoped Interpretation of DNS Resource Records through "Underscored" Naming of Attribute Leaves | March 2019 |
| 8509 | A Root Key Trust Anchor Sentinel for DNSSEC | December 2018 |
| 8501 | Reverse DNS in IPv6 for Internet Service Providers | November 2018 |
| 8499 | DNS Terminology | January 2019 |
| 8490 | DNS Stateful Operations | March 2019 |
| 8484 | DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH) | October 2018 |
| 8483 | Yeti DNS Testbed | October 2018 |
| 8482 | Providing Minimal-Sized Responses to DNS Queries That Have QTYPE=ANY | January 2019 |
| 8467 | Padding Policies for Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0)) | October 2018 |
| 8427 | Representing DNS Messages in JSON | July 2018 |
| 8375 | Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' | May 2018 |
| 8324 | DNS Privacy, Authorization, Special Uses, Encoding, Characters, Matching, and Root Structure: Time for Another Look? | February 2018 |
| 8310 | Usage Profiles for DNS over TLS and DNS over DTLS | March 2018 |
| 8222 | Selecting Labels for Use with Conventional DNS and Other Resolution Systems in DNS-Based Service Discovery | September 2017 |
| 8198 | Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache | July 2017 |
| 8162 | Using Secure DNS to Associate Certificates with Domain Names for S/MIME | May 2017 |
| 8145 | Signaling Trust Anchor Knowledge in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) | April 2017 |
| 8109 | Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming Queries | March 2017 |
| 8106 | IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration | March 2017 |
| 8094 | DNS over Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) | February 2017 |
| 8080 | Edwards-Curve Digital Security Algorithm (EdDSA) for DNSSEC | February 2017 |
| 8078 | Managing DS Records from the Parent via CDS/CDNSKEY | March 2017 |
| 8027 | DNSSEC Roadblock Avoidance | November 2016 |
| 8020 | NXDOMAIN: There Really Is Nothing Underneath | November 2016 |
| 8005 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extension | October 2016 |
| 7958 | DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone | August 2016 |
| 7929 | DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Bindings for OpenPGP | August 2016 |
| 7901 | CHAIN Query Requests in DNS | June 2016 |
| 7873 | Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies | May 2016 |
| 7871 | Client Subnet in DNS Queries | May 2016 |
| 7858 | Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS) | May 2016 |
| 7830 | The EDNS(0) Padding Option | May 2016 |
| 7828 | The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 Option | April 2016 |
| 7816 | DNS Query Name Minimisation to Improve Privacy | March 2016 |
| 7793 | Adding 100.64.0.0/10 Prefixes to the IPv4 Locally-Served DNS Zones Registry | May 2016 |
| 7766 | DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements | March 2016 |
| 7745 | XML Schemas for Reverse DNS Management | January 2016 |
| 7720 | DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment Requirements | December 2015 |
| 7719 | DNS Terminology | December 2015 |
| 7673 | Using DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) TLSA Records with SRV Records | October 2015 |
| 7671 | The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Protocol: Updates and Operational Guidance | October 2015 |
| 7646 | Definition and Use of DNSSEC Negative Trust Anchors | September 2015 |
| 7583 | DNSSEC Key Rollover Timing Considerations | October 2015 |
| 7558 | Requirements for Scalable DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) / Multicast DNS (mDNS) Extensions | July 2015 |
| 7553 | The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) DNS Resource Record | June 2015 |
| 7535 | AS112 Redirection Using DNAME | May 2015 |
| 7534 | AS112 Nameserver Operations | May 2015 |
| 7479 | Using Ed25519 in SSHFP Resource Records | March 2015 |
| 7477 | Child-to-Parent Synchronization in DNS | March 2015 |
| 7393 | Using the Port Control Protocol (PCP) to Update Dynamic DNS | November 2014 |
| 7344 | Automating DNSSEC Delegation Trust Maintenance | September 2014 |
| 7314 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) EXPIRE Option | July 2014 |
| 7304 | A Method for Mitigating Namespace Collisions | July 2014 |
| 7218 | Adding Acronyms to Simplify Conversations about DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) | April 2014 |
| 7129 | Authenticated Denial of Existence in the DNS | February 2014 |
| 7108 | A Summary of Various Mechanisms Deployed at L-Root for the Identification of Anycast Nodes | January 2014 |
| 7085 | Top-Level Domains That Are Already Dotless | December 2013 |
| 7043 | Resource Records for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS | October 2013 |
| 6975 | Signaling Cryptographic Algorithm Understanding in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) | July 2013 |
| 6950 | Architectural Considerations on Application Features in the DNS | October 2013 |
| 6927 | Variants in Second-Level Names Registered in Top-Level Domains | May 2013 |
| 6912 | Principles for Unicode Code Point Inclusion in Labels in the DNS | April 2013 |
| 6895 | Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations | April 2013 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0)) | April 2013 |
| 6841 | A Framework for DNSSEC Policies and DNSSEC Practice Statements | January 2013 |
| 6840 | Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNS Security (DNSSEC) | February 2013 |
| 6804 | Supporting Multicast DNS Queries | November 2012 |
| 6781 | DNSSEC Operational Practices, Version 2 | December 2012 |
| 6763 | DNS-Based Service Discovery | February 2013 |
| 6762 | Multicast DNS | February 2013 |
| 6742 | DNS Resource Records for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) | November 2012 |
| 6731 | Improved Recursive DNS Server Selection for Multi-Interfaced Nodes | December 2012 |
| 6725 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA Registry Updates | August 2012 |
| 6698 | The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA | August 2012 |
| 6672 | DNAME Redirection in the DNS | June 2012 |
| 6641 | Using DNS SRV to Specify a Global File Namespace with NFS Version 4 | June 2012 |
| 6605 | Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) for DNSSEC | April 2012 |
| 6604 | xNAME RCODE and Status Bits Clarification | April 2012 |
| 6594 | Use of the SHA-256 Algorithm with RSA, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) in SSHFP Resource Records | April 2012 |
| 6563 | Moving A6 to Historic Status | March 2012 |
| 6471 | Overview of Best Email DNS-Based List (DNSBL) Operational Practices | January 2012 |
| 6452 | The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) - Unicode 6.0 | November 2011 |
| 6394 | Use Cases and Requirements for DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) | October 2011 |
| 6303 | Locally Served DNS Zones | July 2011 |
| 6186 | Use of SRV Records for Locating Email Submission/Access Services | March 2011 |
| 6168 | Requirements for Management of Name Servers for the DNS | May 2011 |
| 6147 | DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers | April 2011 |
| 6118 | Update of Legacy IANA Registrations of Enumservices | March 2011 |
| 6117 | IANA Registration of Enumservices: Guide, Template, and IANA Considerations | March 2011 |
| 6116 | The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM) | March 2011 |
| 6055 | IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names | February 2011 |
| 6014 | Cryptographic Algorithm Identifier Allocation for DNSSEC | November 2010 |
| 5992 | Internationalized Domain Names Registration and Administration Guidelines for European Languages Using Cyrillic | October 2010 |
| 5936 | DNS Zone Transfer Protocol (AXFR) | June 2010 |
| 5933 | Use of GOST Signature Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC | July 2010 |
| 5910 | Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) | May 2010 |
| 5895 | Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008 | September 2010 |
| 5894 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation, and Rationale | August 2010 |
| 5893 | Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) | August 2010 |
| 5892 | The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) | August 2010 |
| 5891 | Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol | August 2010 |
| 5890 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework | August 2010 |
| 5864 | DNS SRV Resource Records for AFS | April 2010 |
| 5855 | Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones | May 2010 |
| 5782 | DNS Blacklists and Whitelists | February 2010 |
| 5731 | Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping | August 2009 |
| 5702 | Use of SHA-2 Algorithms with RSA in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC | October 2009 |
| 5679 | Locating IEEE 802.21 Mobility Services Using DNS | December 2009 |
| 5625 | DNS Proxy Implementation Guidelines | August 2009 |
| 5564 | Linguistic Guidelines for the Use of the Arabic Language in Internet Domains | February 2010 |
| 5526 | The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application for Infrastructure ENUM | April 2009 |
| 5507 | Design Choices When Expanding the DNS | April 2009 |
| 5452 | Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers | January 2009 |
| 5358 | Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector Attacks | October 2008 |
| 5158 | 6to4 Reverse DNS Delegation Specification | March 2008 |
| 5155 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of Existence | March 2008 |
| 5144 | A Domain Availability Check (DCHK) Registry Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) | February 2008 |
| 5076 | ENUM Validation Information Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol | December 2007 |
| 5074 | DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) | November 2007 |
| 5011 | Automated Updates of DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchors | September 2007 |
| 5001 | DNS Name Server Identifier (NSID) Option | August 2007 |
| 4986 | Requirements Related to DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchor Rollover | August 2007 |
| 4956 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Opt-In | July 2007 |
| 4955 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Experiments | July 2007 |
| 4892 | Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance | June 2007 |
| 4848 | Domain-Based Application Service Location Using URIs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS) | April 2007 |
| 4713 | Registration and Administration Recommendations for Chinese Domain Names | October 2006 |
| 4701 | A DNS Resource Record (RR) for Encoding Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Information (DHCID RR) | October 2006 |
| 4698 | An Address Registry (areg) Type for the Internet Registry Information Service | October 2006 |
| 4697 | Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior | October 2006 |
| 4690 | Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) | September 2006 |
| 4592 | The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name System | July 2006 |
| 4509 | Use of SHA-256 in DNSSEC Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Records (RRs) | May 2006 |
| 4501 | Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers | May 2006 |
| 4472 | Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS | April 2006 |
| 4471 | Derivation of DNS Name Predecessor and Successor | September 2006 |
| 4470 | Minimally Covering NSEC Records and DNSSEC On-line Signing | April 2006 |
| 4431 | The DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) DNS Resource Record | February 2006 |
| 4408 | Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail, Version 1 | April 2006 |
| 4398 | Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) | March 2006 |
| 4367 | What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names | February 2006 |
| 4355 | IANA Registration for Enumservices email, fax, mms, ems, and sms | January 2006 |
| 4343 | Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification | January 2006 |
| 4339 | IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches | February 2006 |
| 4290 | Suggested Practices for Registration of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) | December 2005 |
| 4255 | Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints | January 2006 |
| 4185 | National and Local Characters for DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) Names | October 2005 |
| 4183 | A Suggested Scheme for DNS Resolution of Networks and Gateways | September 2005 |
| 4159 | Deprecation of ip6.int | August 2005 |
| 4143 | Facsimile Using Internet Mail (IFAX) Service of ENUM | November 2005 |
| 4114 | E.164 Number Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) | June 2005 |
| 4074 | Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses | May 2005 |
| 4035 | Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions | March 2005 |
| 4034 | Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions | March 2005 |
| 4033 | DNS Security Introduction and Requirements | March 2005 |
| 4027 | Domain Name System Media Types | April 2005 |
| 4025 | A Method for Storing IPsec Keying Material in DNS | March 2005 |
| 3982 | IRIS: A Domain Registry (dreg) Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) | January 2005 |
| 3958 | Domain-Based Application Service Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS) | January 2005 |
| 3915 | Domain Registry Grace Period Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) | September 2004 |
| 3901 | DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines | September 2004 |
| 3833 | Threat Analysis of the Domain Name System (DNS) | August 2004 |
| 3832 | Remote Service Discovery in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) via DNS SRV | July 2004 |
| 3743 | Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean | April 2004 |
| 3707 | Cross Registry Internet Service Protocol (CRISP) Requirements | February 2004 |
| 3696 | Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names | February 2004 |
| 3681 | Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA | January 2004 |
| 3675 | .sex Considered Dangerous | February 2004 |
| 3663 | Domain Administrative Data in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) | December 2003 |
| 3646 | DNS Configuration options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) | December 2003 |
| 3645 | Generic Security Service Algorithm for Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (GSS-TSIG) | October 2003 |
| 3632 | VeriSign Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 2.0.0 | November 2003 |
| 3597 | Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record (RR) Types | September 2003 |
| 3596 | DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6 | October 2003 |
| 3492 | Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) | March 2003 |
| 3467 | Role of the Domain Name System (DNS) | February 2003 |
| 3425 | Obsoleting IQUERY | November 2002 |
| 3405 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures | October 2002 |
| 3404 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) | October 2002 |
| 3403 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database | October 2002 |
| 3402 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Two: The Algorithm | October 2002 |
| 3401 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS | October 2002 |
| 3397 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Domain Search Option | November 2002 |
| 3375 | Generic Registry-Registrar Protocol Requirements | September 2002 |
| 3364 | Tradeoffs in Domain Name System (DNS) Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) | August 2002 |
| 3363 | Representing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Addresses in the Domain Name System (DNS) | August 2002 |
| 3258 | Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses | April 2002 |
| 3226 | DNSSEC and IPv6 A6 aware server/resolver message size requirements | December 2001 |
| 3225 | Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC | December 2001 |
| 3197 | Applicability Statement for DNS MIB Extensions | November 2001 |
| 3172 | Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain (arpa) | September 2001 |
| 3130 | Notes from the State-Of-The-Technology: DNSSEC | June 2001 |
| 3123 | A DNS RR Type for Lists of Address Prefixes (APL RR) | June 2001 |
| 3110 | RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the Domain Name System (DNS) | May 2001 |
| 3071 | Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains | February 2001 |
| 3026 | Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM | January 2001 |
| 3007 | Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update | November 2000 |
| 2931 | DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s ) | September 2000 |
| 2930 | Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR) | September 2000 |
| 2915 | The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record | September 2000 |
| 2874 | DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering | July 2000 |
| 2832 | NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 | May 2000 |
| 2826 | IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root | May 2000 |
| 2825 | A Tangled Web: Issues of I18N, Domain Names, and the Other Internet protocols | May 2000 |
| 2782 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) | February 2000 |
| 2694 | DNS extensions to Network Address Translators (DNS_ALG) | September 1999 |
| 2606 | Reserved Top Level DNS Names | June 1999 |
| 2540 | Detached Domain Name System (DNS) Information | March 1999 |
| 2539 | Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (DNS) | March 1999 |
| 2536 | DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS) | March 1999 |
| 2517 | Building Directories from DNS: Experiences from WWWSeeker | February 1999 |
| 2352 | A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names | May 1998 |
| 2345 | Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval | May 1998 |
| 2317 | Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation | March 1998 |
| 2308 | Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE) | March 1998 |
| 2230 | Key Exchange Delegation Record for the DNS | November 1997 |
| 2219 | Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services | October 1997 |
| 2182 | Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers | July 1997 |
| 2181 | Clarifications to the DNS Specification | July 1997 |
| 2163 | Using the Internet DNS to Distribute MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM) | January 1998 |
| 2146 | U.S. Government Internet Domain Names | May 1997 |
| 2136 | Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE) | April 1997 |
| 2053 | The AM (Armenia) Domain | October 1996 |
| 1996 | A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY) | August 1996 |
| 1995 | Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS | August 1996 |
| 1982 | Serial Number Arithmetic | August 1996 |
| 1956 | Registration in the MIL Domain | June 1996 |
| 1912 | Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors | February 1996 |
| 1876 | A Means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System | January 1996 |
| 1794 | DNS Support for Load Balancing | April 1995 |
| 1788 | ICMP Domain Name Messages | April 1995 |
| 1713 | Tools for DNS debugging | November 1994 |
| 1712 | DNS Encoding of Geographical Location | November 1994 |
| 1706 | DNS NSAP Resource Records | October 1994 |
| 1612 | DNS Resolver MIB Extensions | May 1994 |
| 1611 | DNS Server MIB Extensions | May 1994 |
| 1591 | Domain Name System Structure and Delegation | March 1994 |
| 1536 | Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes | October 1993 |
| 1535 | A Security Problem and Proposed Correction With Widely Deployed DNS Software | October 1993 |
| 1480 | The US Domain | June 1993 |
| 1464 | Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes | May 1993 |
| 1401 | Correspondence between the IAB and DISA on the use of DNS | January 1993 |
| 1394 | Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains | January 1993 |
| 1383 | An Experiment in DNS Based IP Routing | December 1992 |
| 1279 | X.500 and Domains | November 1991 |
| 1183 | New DNS RR Definitions | October 1990 |
| 1101 | DNS encoding of network names and other types | April 1989 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specification | November 1987 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilities | November 1987 |
| 1033 | Domain Administrators Operations Guide | November 1987 |
| 1032 | Domain administrators guide | November 1987 |
| 1031 | MILNET name domain transition | November 1987 |
| 0974 | Mail routing and the domain system | January 1986 |
| 0952 | DoD Internet host table specification | October 1985 |
| 0921 | Domain name system implementation schedule | October 1984 |
| 0920 | Domain requirements | October 1984 |
| 0897 | Domain name system implementation schedule | February 1984 |
| 0881 | Domain names plan and schedule | November 1983 |
| 0819 | Domain naming convention for Internet user applications | August 1982 |
| 0799 | Internet name domains | September 1981 |