The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS. Like WHOIS, RDAP provides access to information about Internet resources (domain names, autonomous system numbers, and IP addresses). Unlike WHOIS, RDAP provides:

RDAP.org aims to support users and developers of RDAP clients by providing a "bootstrap server", i.e. single end point for RDAP queries. RDAP.org aggregates information about all known RDAP servers. RDAP clients can send RDAP queries to RDAP.org, which will then redirect requests to the appropriate RDAP service.

How To Use RDAP.org

Client Implementers

If you are developing an RDAP client, configure it to send HTTP requests to https://rdap.org/<type>/<object>, where <type> is the object type (one of domain, ip, autnum, entity etc) and <object> is the object identifier (eg example.com, 192.168.0.1, 64496, etc).

HTTP Status Codes

Note that these status codes only apply to the RDAP.org service itself, not the registry RDAP services themselves.

Additional Resources

Apart from the DNS, ASN and IP registries which are listed in the IANA registry, RDAP.ORG also provides the following unofficial RDAP server endpoints:

References

These are the authoritative references for the RDAP protocol specifications:

Privacy Considerations

If you use RDAP.org to perform RDAP queries, your queries will be logged, alongside your IP address. These logs are not disclosed to anyone and are deleted within a few days. RDAP.org will not set any cookies in your browser.

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About RDAP.org

You can review the code which RDAP.org uses on GitHub.

RDAP.org is maintained by me, Gavin Brown. While I am currently an employee of ICANN, I run this service in my own time and at my own cost.

Supporting RDAP.ORG

If your organisation depends on RDAP.org, then please consider supporting it, since it's not free to operate and requires ongoing maintenance and management.

If you'd like to support this service, please email support@rdap.org to discuss options.