RDAP API – Normalized JSON for Domain/IP Lookups (Whois Replacement)

Show HN: RDAP API – Normalized JSON for Domain/IP Lookups (Whois Replacement)

RDAP API – Normalized JSON for Domain/IP Lookups (Whois Replacement) is a company in show hn launch.

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I discovered RDAP while working on a hobby project where I needed to check if IP addresses were residential or not. RDAP was giving me more data than WHOIS, and it returns JSON instead of plain text. WHOIS is going away anyway. ICANN now requires RDAP for all gTLDs, and many registries are returning less data over port 43 or dropping it entirely. But RDAP is not easy to work with directly.There is no single server. You have to check the IANA bootstrap registry to find which server handles each TLD, and some ccTLDs have working RDAP servers that are not even listed there. For .com and .net, the registry only has basic data. You need a second request to the registrar server to get contacts and

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Website: rdapapi.io