Well-Known URIs

Created

  • 2010-01-20

Last Updated

  • 2026-10-07

Available Formats


Well-Known URIs

Registration Procedure(s)

  • Specification Required

Expert(s)

  • Mark Nottingham

Reference

  • RFC 8615: Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

Note

New well-known URI registrations, along with changes to existing registrations, can be requested using the registry interface or the mailing list defined in RFC 8615.

Available Formats

URI Suffix Reference Status Change Controller Related Information Date Registered Date Modified
acme-challenge RFC 8555, Section 8.3 permanent IETF 2016-08-18
agent-card.json https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/specification/ permanent Linux Foundation 2025-08-01
amphtml https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/update-cache provisional AMP Project (OpenJS Foundation) 2020-07-06
api-catalog RFC 9727 permanent IETF 2024-12-23
appspecific https://github.com/Vroo/well-known-uri-appspecific/blob/main/well-known-uri-for-application-specific-purposes.txt provisional Bruce Leban 2021-06-01
ashrae http://www.bacnet.org/Addenda/Add-135-2012am-ppr3-draft-17_chair_approved.pdf permanent American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 2016-01-22
assetlinks.json https://github.com/google/digitalassetlinks/blob/master/well-known/specification.md permanent Google Inc. https://github.com/google/digitalassetlinks/blob/master/well-known/details.md 2015-09-28
bluejetty https://bluejettyai.com/standards/iana-well-known/bluejetty provisional PopUp Space Systems LLC (Blue Jetty) 2026-09-16
broadband-labels https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5681704 provisional Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) 2024-08-30 2026-02-25
brski RFC 8995 permanent IETF BRSKI has a registry at BRSKI Well-Known URIs 2020-10-09
caldav RFC 6764 permanent IETF see also RFC 4791
carddav RFC 6764 permanent IETF see also RFC 6352
cdmi https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical-work/cdmi/Public_Review/well_known_0.0.1.pdf provisional Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) 2026-10-07
change-password https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-change-password-url/#the-change-password-well-known-uri provisional W3C 2023-03-13
cmp RFC 9811; RFC 9482 permanent IETF CMP has a registry at Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) 2021-05-20 2025-01-14
coap RFC 8323 permanent IETF 2017-12-22
coap-eap RFC 9820 permanent IETF 2025-02-14
core RFC 6690 permanent IETF
csaf Common Security Advisory Framework Version 2.0, OASIS Standard provisional OASIS Open 2023-02-10
csaf-aggregator Common Security Advisory Framework Version 2.0, OASIS Standard provisional OASIS Open 2023-02-10
csipaus SA TS 5573:2025 Common Smart Inverter Profile - Australia with Test Procedures provisional Common Smart Inverter Profile - Australia Secretariat 2026-07-31
csvm https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-model/#default-locations-and-site-wide-location-configuration permanent W3C 2015-09-28
cyclic-trigger https://github.com/SmartStandards/.well-known.cyclic-trigger provisional SmartStandards Community 2026-08-17
did.json https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-web provisional Credentials Community Group 2023-01-31
did-configuration.json https://identity.foundation/.well-known/resources/did-configuration provisional Claims and Credentials WG 2023-01-31
dnt http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#status-resource permanent W3C Tracking Protection WG 2015-08-19
dnt-policy.txt https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy permanent Electronic Frontier Foundation 2015-08-19
dots RFC 9132 permanent IETF 2020-01-16 2021-06-11
easy-proxy https://github.com/bytedance/g3/blob/master/doc/easy-proxy.md provisional The G3 Project 2025-05-01
ecips https://ecips.that.world/24-ECIPURI provisional Wei Tang 2019-04-10
edhoc RFC 9528 permanent IETF 2023-08-29
enterprise-network-security ETSI TS 103 523-5 clause 4.3.4.3.4.2 permanent ETSI (TC CYBER) 2022-02-07
enterprise-transport-security ETSI TS 103 523-3 clause 4.3.8.3 permanent ETSI (TC CYBER) 2019-05-14
est RFC 7030; RFC 9148 permanent IETF 2013-08-16 2020-04-29
funding-manifest-urls https://fundingjson.org/ provisional info at floss.fund 2025-04-02
genid RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax permanent W3C 2012-11-15
gnap-as-rs RFC 9767, Section 3.1 permanent IETF 2024-10-23
gpc.json Global Privacy Control (GPC) provisional W3C 2022-01-28
gs1resolver GS1 Digital Link, Section 7.11 permanent GS1 2020-05-18
hoba RFC 7486, Section 6 permanent IETF 2015-01-20
host-meta RFC 6415 permanent IETF The "host-meta" documents obtained from the same host using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols (using default ports) MUST be identical.
host-meta.json RFC 6415 permanent IETF The "host-meta.json" documents obtained from the same host using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols (using default ports) MUST be identical.
hosting-provider https://github.com/Automattic/hosting-provider provisional Automattic Inc. 2020-07-21
http-opportunistic RFC 8164, Section 2.3; Status change of HTTP experiments to Historic obsoleted IETF 2017-03-20 2021-12-28
ic-domains https://docs.internetcomputer.org/building-apps/frontends/custom-domains/using-custom-domains#step-2-create-a-file-named-ic-domains-in-your-canister-under-the-well-known-directory-containing-the-custom-domain provisional DFINITY Foundation 2026-01-12
idp-proxy RFC 8827 permanent IETF 2019-07-25
jmap RFC 8620, Section 2.2 permanent IETF 2019-03-28
keybase.txt https://keybase.io/__/keybase_well_known permanent The Keybase Project Related information: Documentation for the Keybase command line and API. 2014-04-08
knx https://knxcloud.org/index.php/s/jdZXpCC3EolQgH2/download provisional KNX Association 2023-08-15
looking-glass RFC 8522, Section 2 permanent Markus Stubbig 2018-12-07
masque RFC 9298; RFC 9484 permanent IETF For sub-suffix allocations, see the registry at Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption (MASQUE). 2022-06-23 2023-05-16
matrix https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#well-known-uri; https://spec.matrix.org/latest/server-server-api/#getwell-knownmatrixserver permanent The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C. 2019-04-16 2023-06-20
mercure https://mercure.rocks/spec provisional Les-Tilleuls.coop 2023-03-20
mta-sts.txt RFC 8461 permanent IETF 2018-06-21
mud obsoleted 2016-11-23 2021-12-28
nfv-oauth-server-configuration ETSI GS NFV-SEC 022 V2.7.1 permanent ETSI 2019-06-26 2020-01-22
ni RFC 6920 permanent IETF
nodeinfo https://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/ provisional NodeInfo Developer Community 2024-07-29
nostr.json https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md provisional Nostr Developer Community 2024-03-18
oauth-authorization-server RFC 8414, Section 3 permanent IESG 2018-03-27
oauth-protected-resource RFC 9728, Section 3 permanent IETF 2024-10-22
ohttp-gateway RFC 9540 permanent IETF 2023-10-25
ojobpub.json https://docs.letsemploy.org provisional letsemploy.org 2026-05-12
openbindings https://openbindings.com/spec provisional OpenBindings Project 2026-05-13
openid-federation Section 9 of OpenID Federation 1.0 provisional OpenID Foundation Artifact Binding Working Group 2024-07-26
open-resource-discovery https://sap.github.io/open-resource-discovery/ provisional SAP SE 2023-11-27
openid-configuration http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html permanent OpenID Foundation Artifact Binding Working Group 2013-08-27
openorg http://opd.data.ac.uk/ permanent Christopher Gutteridge 2015-05-29
oslc https://docs.oasis-open-projects.org/oslc-op/core/v3.0/ps01/oslc-core.html permanent OASIS 2020-12-29
pki-validation Section 3.2.2.4.6 of version 1.3.8 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Baseline Requirements Certificate Policy for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates (“Baseline Requirements”) permanent CA/Browser Forum See also https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/ 2017-02-06
posh RFC 7711 permanent IETF The suffix "posh" is expected to be followed by an additional path component consisting of a service name (say, "spice") and a file extension of ".json", resulting in a full path of, for instance, "/.well-known/posh/spice.json". Registration of service names shall be requested by developers of the relevant application protocols. 2015-09-20
privacy-sandbox-attestations.json https://github.com/privacysandbox/attestation deprecated Google Inc. 2024-12-04 2026-04-01
private-token-issuer-directory RFC 9578 permanent IETF 2023-10-09
probing.txt RFC 9511 permanent IETF 2023-09-01
pvd RFC 8801 permanent IETF 2020-02-18
rd RFC 9176 permanent IETF 2021-05-04
related-website-set.json https://github.com/GoogleChrome/related-website-sets/blob/main/Well-Known-Specification.md deprecated Google Inc. 2023-12-01 2026-04-01
reload-config RFC 6940 permanent IETF
repute-template RFC 7072 permanent IETF 2013-09-30
resourcesync http://www.openarchives.org/rs/resourcesync permanent National Information Standardization Organization (NISO) 2017-05-26
sbom RFC 9472 permanent IETF See ISO/IEC 5962:2021 and SPDX.org 2023-05-12
scitt-keys RFC-ietf-scitt-scrapi-11 permanent IETF RFC 9943 2026-07-01
security.txt RFC 9116 permanent IETF 2021-07-13
ssf-configuration https://openid.net/specs/openid-sharedsignals-framework-1_0-ID2.html provisional OpenID Foundation Shared Signals Working Group 2024-04-18
ssh-known-hosts https://c2sp.org/well-known-ssh-hosts provisional David Crawshaw 2025-12-16
sshfp https://sshfp.github.io/sshfp.html provisional Cynthia Revström 2020-07-21
stun-key RFC 7635 permanent IETF 2015-06-12
tea Transparency Exchange API (coming) provisional ECMA International TC54 2026-02-28
terraform.json https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/internals/remote-service-discovery provisional HashiCorp Terraform Team 2024-07-01
thread https://www.threadgroup.org/support#specifications permanent Thread Group, Inc. 2018-11-29
time http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/20151129/ permanent Poul-Henning Kamp 2015-12-09
timezone RFC 7808 permanent IESG 2015-08-03
tdmrep.json https://www.w3.org/2022/tdmrep/ provisional W3C 2024-02-15
tor-relay The "tor-relay" Well-Known Resource Identifier provisional Tor Project Development Mailing List 2020-10-06
tpcd The "tpcd/grace-period.json" Well-Known Resource Identifier deprecated Google LLC https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/3pcd-grace-period-opt-out 2024-05-08 2026-04-01
traffic-advice https://buettner.github.io/private-prefetch-proxy/traffic-advice.html provisional Jeremy Roman 2022-03-29
trust.txt https://journallist.net/reference-document-for-trust-txt-specifications provisional JournalList.net 2022-02-04
uma2-configuration UMA 2.0 Grant for OAuth 2.0, Section 2 permanent Kantara Initiative User-Managed Access Work Group 2017-06-20
vacation-rental.json https://vacationrentalprotocol.com/spec/well-known-uri-v0.1 provisional Rouiada Abbas 2026-08-19
void http://www.w3.org/TR/void permanent W3C 2011-05-11
webauthn https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/#well-known-uri-registration permanent W3C 2026-01-23
webfinger RFC 7033 permanent IETF The query to the WebFinger resource will include one or more parameters in the query string; see Section 4.1 of RFC 7033. Resources at this location are able to return a JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD) as described in Section 4.4 of RFC 7033. 2013-03-15 2013-09-06
webhook-authorized-senders.json https://intempus.dk/webhook-authorization permanent Intempus ApS 2025-09-29
webweaver.json https://www.webweaver.de/well-known provisional DigiOnline GmbH 2022-08-11
wot https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-discovery/#introduction-well-known permanent W3C WoT WG 2023-01-24
xregistry https://xregistry.io/xreg/xregistryspecs/core-v1/docs/spec.html provisional xRegistry Authors 2026-08-19

Contact Information

Name Contact URI Last Updated
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) http://www.ashrae.org 2016-01-22
Automattic Inc. https://automattic.com 2020-07-21
Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) https://www.bitag.org 2024-08-30
Bruce Leban bruce&leban.us 2021-06-01
CA/Browser Forum questions&cabforum.org
https://www.cabforum.org
2017-02-06
Christopher Gutteridge cjg&ecs.soton.ac.uk 2015-05-29
Claims and Credentials WG cc-wg&lists.identity.foundation 2023-01-31
Common Smart Inverter Profile - Australia Secretariat csipaus&csipaus.org 2026-07-31
Credentials Community Group public-credentials&w3.org 2023-01-31
Cynthia Revström d6035904-6d06-4ef2-861b-81090738b440&email.cynthia.re 2020-07-21
David Crawshaw david&zentus.com 2025-12-16
DFINITY Foundation boundary-nodes&dfinity.org 2026-01-12
DigiOnline GmbH https://www.digionline.de 2022-08-11
ECMA International TC54 https://ecma-international.org/technical-committees/tc54/ 2026-02-28
ETSI pnns&etsi.org 2019-06-26
ETSI (TC CYBER) cybersupport&etsi.org 2022-02-07
The G3 Project https://github.com/bytedance/g3 2025-05-01
Google Inc. well-known-statements&google.com 2015-09-28
Google LLC tpcd-mitigations-team&google.com 2024-05-08
GS1 phil.archer&gs1.org 2020-05-18
HashiCorp Terraform Team https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform 2024-07-01
info at floss.fund info&floss.fund 2025-04-02
Intempus ApS api&intempus.dk 2025-09-29
Jeremy Roman jbroman&chromium.org 2022-03-29
Kantara Initiative User-Managed Access Work Group staff&kantarainitiative.org 2017-06-29
KNX Association joost.demarest&knx.org 2023-08-15
Les-Tilleuls.coop https://les-tilleuls.coop 2023-03-20
Markus Stubbig stubbig.ietf&gmail.com 2018-12-07
National Information Standardization Organization (NISO) nisohq&niso.org 2017-05-26
NodeInfo Developer Community https://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/ 2024-07-29
Nostr Developer Community https://dev.to/t/nostr 2024-03-18
OASIS https://www.oasis-open.org/ 2020-12-29
OASIS Open project-admin&oasis-open.org 2023-02-10
OpenBindings Project maintainers&openbindings.com 2026-05-13
OpenID Foundation Artifact Binding Working Group openid-specs-ab&lists.openid.net 2013-08-27
OpenID Foundation Shared Signals Working Group openid-specs-risc&lists.openid.net 2024-04-18
Poul-Henning Kamp phk&phk.freebsd.dk 2019-05-24
Rouiada Abbas hello&vacationrentalprotocol.com 2026-08-19
SAP SE ospo&sap.com 2023-11-27
SmartStandards Community smartstandards&kornsw.de 2026-08-17
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) https://www.snia.org/ 2026-10-07
The Keybase Project https://keybase.io/ 2014-04-08
The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C. https://matrix.org 2019-04-16
Thread Group, Inc. help&threadgroup.org 2018-11-29
Tor Project Development Mailing List tor-dev&lists.torproject.org 2020-10-20
W3C Tracking Protection WG http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/ 2015-08-19
W3C WoT WG team-wot&w3.org 2023-01-24
Wei Tang hi&that.world 2019-04-10
xRegistry Authors cncf-xregistry&lists.cncf.io 2026-08-19