diff --git a/internal/runner/options.go b/internal/runner/options.go
index 53321dcd4..91eb0988a 100644
--- a/internal/runner/options.go
+++ b/internal/runner/options.go
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
 )
 
+// DefaultResolvers contains the list of resolvers known to be trusted.
+var DefaultResolvers = []string{
+	"1.1.1.1:53", // Cloudflare
+	"1.0.0.1:53", // Cloudflare
+	"8.8.8.8:53", // Google
+	"8.8.4.4:53", // Google
+	"9.9.9.9:53", // Quad9
+}
+
 // Options contains the configuration options for tuning
 // the template requesting process.
 type Options struct {
diff --git a/internal/runner/runner.go b/internal/runner/runner.go
index 7e32ffb42..0ff240614 100644
--- a/internal/runner/runner.go
+++ b/internal/runner/runner.go
@@ -13,17 +13,20 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/miekg/dns"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/pkg/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/pkg/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/pkg/templates"
+	retryabledns "github.com/projectdiscovery/retryabledns"
 	retryablehttp "github.com/projectdiscovery/retryablehttp-go"
 )
 
 // Runner is a client for running the enumeration process.
 type Runner struct {
-	// client is the http client with retries
-	client *retryablehttp.Client
+	// httpClient is the http client with retries
+	httpClient *retryablehttp.Client
+	dnsClient  *retryabledns.Client
 	// output is the output file to write if any
 	output      *os.File
 	outputMutex *sync.Mutex
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ func New(options *Options) (*Runner, error) {
 	retryablehttpOptions.RetryMax = options.Retries
 
 	// Create the HTTP Client
-	client := retryablehttp.NewWithHTTPClient(&http.Client{
+	httpClient := retryablehttp.NewWithHTTPClient(&http.Client{
 		Transport: &http.Transport{
 			MaxIdleConnsPerHost: -1,
 			TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{
@@ -57,9 +60,13 @@ func New(options *Options) (*Runner, error) {
 			return http.ErrUseLastResponse
 		},
 	}, retryablehttpOptions)
-	client.CheckRetry = retryablehttp.HostSprayRetryPolicy()
+	httpClient.CheckRetry = retryablehttp.HostSprayRetryPolicy()
 
-	runner.client = client
+	runner.httpClient = httpClient
+
+	// Create the dns client
+	dnsClient, _ := retryabledns.New(DefaultResolvers, options.Retries)
+	runner.dnsClient = dnsClient
 
 	// Create the output file if asked
 	if options.Output != "" {
@@ -165,18 +172,19 @@ func (r *Runner) processTemplateWithList(template *templates.Template, reader io
 
 // sendRequest sends a request to the target based on a template
 func (r *Runner) sendRequest(template *templates.Template, URL string, writer *bufio.Writer) {
-	for _, request := range template.Requests {
+	// process http requests
+	for _, request := range template.RequestsHTTP {
 		// Compile each request for the template based on the URL
-		compiledRequest, err := request.MakeRequest(URL)
+		compiledRequest, err := request.MakeHTTPRequest(URL)
 		if err != nil {
 			gologger.Warningf("[%s] Could not make request %s: %s\n", template.ID, URL, err)
 			continue
 		}
 
 		// Send the request to the target servers
-	reqLoop:
+	reqLoopHTTP:
 		for _, req := range compiledRequest {
-			resp, err := r.client.Do(req)
+			resp, err := r.httpClient.Do(req)
 			if err != nil {
 				if resp != nil {
 					resp.Body.Close()
@@ -206,7 +214,7 @@ func (r *Runner) sendRequest(template *templates.Template, URL string, writer *b
 
 				// Check if the matcher matched
 				if !matcher.Match(resp, body, headers) {
-					continue reqLoop
+					continue reqLoopHTTP
 				}
 			}
 
@@ -231,6 +239,46 @@ func (r *Runner) sendRequest(template *templates.Template, URL string, writer *b
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	// process dns messages
+	for _, request := range template.RequestsDNS {
+		// Compile each request for the template based on the URL
+		compiledRequest, err := request.MakeDNSRequest(URL)
+		if err != nil {
+			gologger.Warningf("[%s] Could not make request %s: %s\n", template.ID, URL, err)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Send the request to the target servers
+		resp, err := r.dnsClient.Do(compiledRequest)
+		if err != nil {
+			gologger.Warningf("[%s] Could not send request %s: %s\n", template.ID, URL, err)
+			return
+		}
+
+		for _, matcher := range request.Matchers {
+			// Check if the matcher matched
+			if !matcher.MatchDNS(resp) {
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+
+		// If there is an extractor, run it.
+		var extractorResults []string
+		for _, extractor := range request.Extractors {
+			extractorResults = append(extractorResults, extractor.ExtractDNS(resp.String())...)
+		}
+
+		// All the matchers matched, print the output on the screen
+		output := buildOutputDNS(template, resp, extractorResults)
+		gologger.Silentf("%s", output)
+
+		if writer != nil {
+			r.outputMutex.Lock()
+			writer.WriteString(output)
+			r.outputMutex.Unlock()
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // buildOutput builds an output text for writing results
@@ -259,3 +307,32 @@ func buildOutput(template *templates.Template, req *retryablehttp.Request, extra
 
 	return builder.String()
 }
+
+// buildOutput builds an output text for writing results
+func buildOutputDNS(template *templates.Template, msg *dns.Msg, extractorResults []string) string {
+	builder := &strings.Builder{}
+	builder.WriteRune('[')
+	builder.WriteString(template.ID)
+	builder.WriteString("] ")
+
+	// domain name from question
+	if len(msg.Question) > 0 {
+		domain := msg.Question[0].Name
+		builder.WriteString(domain)
+	}
+
+	// If any extractors, write the results
+	if len(extractorResults) > 0 {
+		builder.WriteString(" [")
+		for i, result := range extractorResults {
+			builder.WriteString(result)
+			if i != len(extractorResults)-1 {
+				builder.WriteRune(',')
+			}
+		}
+		builder.WriteString("]")
+	}
+	builder.WriteRune('\n')
+
+	return builder.String()
+}
diff --git a/internal/runner/utils.go b/internal/runner/utils.go
index ab82869ce..f16b33dde 100644
--- a/internal/runner/utils.go
+++ b/internal/runner/utils.go
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ package runner
 
 import (
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
 	"strings"
 	"unsafe"
+
+	"github.com/asaskevich/govalidator"
 )
 
 // unsafeToString converts byte slice to string with zero allocations
@@ -29,3 +32,25 @@ func headersToString(headers http.Header) string {
 	}
 	return builder.String()
 }
+
+// isURL tests a string to determine if it is a well-structured url or not.
+func isURL(toTest string) bool {
+	_, err := url.ParseRequestURI(toTest)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	u, err := url.Parse(toTest)
+	if err != nil || u.Scheme == "" || u.Host == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return true
+}
+
+// isDNS tests a string to determine if it is a well-structured dns or not
+// even if it's oneliner, we leave it wrapped in a function call for
+// future improvements
+func isDNS(toTest string) bool {
+	return govalidator.IsDNSName(toTest)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/extractors/extract.go b/pkg/extractors/extract.go
index 0391bc7bc..5988759af 100644
--- a/pkg/extractors/extract.go
+++ b/pkg/extractors/extract.go
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ func (e *Extractor) Extract(body, headers string) []string {
 	}
 }
 
+// ExtractDNS extracts response from dns message using a regex
+func (e *Extractor) ExtractDNS(msg string) []string {
+	// Match the parts as required for regex check
+	return e.extractRegex(msg)
+}
+
 // extractRegex extracts text from a corpus and returns it
 func (e *Extractor) extractRegex(corpus string) []string {
 	results := []string{}
diff --git a/pkg/matchers/match.go b/pkg/matchers/match.go
index 50d3933b3..ac2931936 100644
--- a/pkg/matchers/match.go
+++ b/pkg/matchers/match.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/miekg/dns"
 )
 
 // Match matches a http response again a given matcher
@@ -53,6 +55,25 @@ func (m *Matcher) Match(resp *http.Response, body, headers string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// MatchDNS matches a dns response again a given matcher
+func (m *Matcher) MatchDNS(msg *dns.Msg) bool {
+	switch m.matcherType {
+	// [WIP] add dns status code matcher
+	case SizeMatcher:
+		return m.matchSizeCode(msg.Len())
+	case WordsMatcher:
+		// Match for word check
+		return m.matchWords(msg.String())
+	case RegexMatcher:
+		// Match regex check
+		return m.matchRegex(msg.String())
+	case BinaryMatcher:
+		// Match binary characters check
+		return m.matchBinary(msg.String())
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // matchStatusCode matches a status code check against an HTTP Response
 func (m *Matcher) matchStatusCode(statusCode int) bool {
 	// Iterate over all the status codes accepted as valid
diff --git a/pkg/requests/dns-question.go b/pkg/requests/dns-question.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..378a05211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/requests/dns-question.go
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+package requests
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/miekg/dns"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/pkg/extractors"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/pkg/matchers"
+	"github.com/valyala/fasttemplate"
+)
+
+// DNSRequest contains a request to be made from a template
+type DNSRequest struct {
+	Recursion bool `yaml:"recursion"`
+	// Path contains the path/s for the request
+	Name  string `yaml:"name"`
+	Type  string `yaml:"type"`
+	Class string `yaml:"class"`
+
+	// Matchers contains the detection mechanism for the request to identify
+	// whether the request was successful
+	Matchers []*matchers.Matcher `yaml:"matchers,omitempty"`
+	// Extractors contains the extraction mechanism for the request to identify
+	// and extract parts of the response.
+	Extractors []*extractors.Extractor `yaml:"extractors,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// MakeDNSRequest creates a *dns.Request from a request template
+func (r *DNSRequest) MakeDNSRequest(domain string) (*dns.Msg, error) {
+
+	domain = dns.Fqdn(domain)
+
+	// Build a request on the specified URL
+	req := new(dns.Msg)
+	req.Id = dns.Id()
+	req.RecursionDesired = r.Recursion
+
+	var q dns.Question
+
+	t := fasttemplate.New(r.Name, "{{", "}}")
+	q.Name = dns.Fqdn(t.ExecuteString(map[string]interface{}{
+		"FQDN": domain,
+	}))
+
+	qclass, err := toQClass(r.Class)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	q.Qclass = qclass
+
+	qtype, err := toQType(r.Type)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	q.Qtype = qtype
+
+	req.Question = append(req.Question, q)
+
+	return req, nil
+}
+
+func toQType(ttype string) (rtype uint16, err error) {
+	ttype = strings.TrimSpace(strings.ToUpper(ttype))
+
+	switch ttype {
+	case "A":
+		rtype = dns.TypeA
+	case "NS":
+		rtype = dns.TypeNS
+	case "CNAME":
+		rtype = dns.TypeCNAME
+	case "SOA":
+		rtype = dns.TypeSOA
+	case "PTR":
+		rtype = dns.TypePTR
+	case "MX":
+		rtype = dns.TypeMX
+	case "TXT":
+		rtype = dns.TypeTXT
+	case "AAAA":
+		rtype = dns.TypeAAAA
+	default:
+		rtype = dns.TypeNone
+		err = fmt.Errorf("incorrect type")
+	}
+
+	return
+}
+
+func toQClass(tclass string) (rclass uint16, err error) {
+	tclass = strings.TrimSpace(strings.ToUpper(tclass))
+
+	switch tclass {
+	case "INET":
+		rclass = dns.ClassINET
+	case "CSNET":
+		rclass = dns.ClassCSNET
+	case "CHAOS":
+		rclass = dns.ClassCHAOS
+	case "HESIOD":
+		rclass = dns.ClassHESIOD
+	case "NONE":
+		rclass = dns.ClassNONE
+	case "ANY":
+		rclass = dns.ClassANY
+	default:
+		err = fmt.Errorf("incorrect class")
+	}
+
+	return
+}
diff --git a/pkg/requests/requests.go b/pkg/requests/http-request.go
similarity index 90%
rename from pkg/requests/requests.go
rename to pkg/requests/http-request.go
index 307a960e1..86e3cfa1c 100644
--- a/pkg/requests/requests.go
+++ b/pkg/requests/http-request.go
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/valyala/fasttemplate"
 )
 
-// Request contains a request to be made from a template
-type Request struct {
+// HTTPRequest contains a request to be made from a template
+type HTTPRequest struct {
 	// Method is the request method, whether GET, POST, PUT, etc
 	Method string `yaml:"method"`
 	// Path contains the path/s for the request
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ type Request struct {
 	Extractors []*extractors.Extractor `yaml:"extractors,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// MakeRequest creates a *http.Request from a request template
-func (r *Request) MakeRequest(baseURL string) ([]*retryablehttp.Request, error) {
+// MakeHTTPRequest creates a *http.Request from a request template
+func (r *HTTPRequest) MakeHTTPRequest(baseURL string) ([]*retryablehttp.Request, error) {
 	parsed, err := url.Parse(baseURL)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/templates/compile.go b/pkg/templates/compile.go
index 25c58a0f4..cfe7a8a66 100644
--- a/pkg/templates/compile.go
+++ b/pkg/templates/compile.go
@@ -22,8 +22,23 @@ func ParseTemplate(file string) (*Template, error) {
 	}
 	f.Close()
 
-	// Compile the matchers and the extractors
-	for _, request := range template.Requests {
+	// Compile the matchers and the extractors for http requests
+	for _, request := range template.RequestsHTTP {
+		for _, matcher := range request.Matchers {
+			if err = matcher.CompileMatchers(); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+		}
+
+		for _, extractor := range request.Extractors {
+			if err := extractor.CompileExtractors(); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Compile the matchers and the extractors for dns requests
+	for _, request := range template.RequestsDNS {
 		for _, matcher := range request.Matchers {
 			if err = matcher.CompileMatchers(); err != nil {
 				return nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/templates/templates.go b/pkg/templates/templates.go
index 1e73a5eee..8c9352368 100644
--- a/pkg/templates/templates.go
+++ b/pkg/templates/templates.go
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ type Template struct {
 	ID string `yaml:"id"`
 	// Info contains information about the template
 	Info Info `yaml:"info"`
-	// Request contains the request to make in the template
-	Requests []*requests.Request `yaml:"requests"`
+	// Request contains the http request to make in the template
+	RequestsHTTP []*requests.HTTPRequest `yaml:"requests"`
+	// Request contains the dns request to make in the template
+	RequestsDNS []*requests.DNSRequest `yaml:"dns"`
 }
 
 // Info contains information about the request template