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Full-rich client for the Registry Data Access Protocol (RDAP) sponsored by ICANN. Version 0.0.30 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-09.
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Package summary
Full-rich client for the Registry Data Access Protocol (RDAP) sponsored by ICANN
Project links
Commands and aliases
- rdap
- rdap-test
history
Project history and usage
ICANN RDAP is ICANN's open-source implementation for the Registry Data Access Protocol, with command-line tools and Rust crates for RDAP clients, common data structures, and server work. In package-manager terms it is a modern successor-side tool for the domain registration lookup workflows historically associated with WHOIS.
Project history
The repository README says the software is written by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for use with RDAP, an IETF-standard protocol whose extensions are handled in the IETF REGEXT working group. The legacy project wiki describes four Rust packages: `icann-rdap-cli`, `icann-rdap-client`, `icann-rdap-common`, and `icann-rdap-srv`.
The project documentation moved from the GitHub wiki to a generated online user's manual. That migration reflects the tool's growth from repository notes into a documented CLI and library suite with installation, usage, and testing guidance.
Adoption history
The wiki documents distribution through Homebrew for the `rdap` and `rdap-test` commands, prebuilt release binaries for mainstream Linux, macOS, and Windows targets, and `cargo install icann-rdap-cli` for Rust users. Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE package mappings in the input show packaging beyond the ICANN repository itself.
How it is used
The Homebrew formula installs the `rdap` client and `rdap-test` command. The intended use is querying RDAP services for domain and registry data, testing RDAP endpoints, and developing tooling around the ICANN-maintained Rust libraries.
Why package nerds care
This is notable because it packages a standards-body-adjacent network protocol client rather than a generic lookup script. It sits at the intersection of DNS operations, registrar data access, Rust CLI distribution, and the long transition from WHOIS-style text services to structured RDAP responses.
Timeline
- 2015: IETF published RDAP's core RFC series, establishing the protocol family that this tool implements.
- 2020s: ICANN RDAP appears as a Rust workspace with CLI, client, common, and server crates.
- 2020s: Documentation moved from the project wiki to the generated ICANN RDAP Users Manual.
- 2020s: Tags from v0.0.1 through v0.0.29 record ongoing packaged releases.
Related projects
- Related work includes RDAP itself, the IETF REGEXT working group, ICANN's RDAP program, WHOIS tooling, and Rust crates used to build domain-registration data clients and tests.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for icann-rdap. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
rdap | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
rdap-test | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.0.30
manager updated2026-07-09
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:icann-rdap |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.0.30 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/wiki |
| Repository | https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap |
| Last updated | 2026-07-09T13:11:36Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation