# Install icann-rdap with Homebrew, MacPorts, apt, Nix, zypper

Full-rich client for the Registry Data Access Protocol (RDAP) sponsored by ICANN. Version 0.0.29 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-30.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:icann-rdap
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install icann-rdap
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install icann-rdap
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/icann-rdap/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install rdap
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: rdap from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#rdap
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/rd/rdap/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install rdap
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: rdap from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:icann-rdap
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/icann-rdap>
- **Version:** 0.0.29
- **Source summary:** Full-rich client for the Registry Data Access Protocol (RDAP) sponsored by ICANN
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/wiki>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://icann.github.io/icann-rdap>
- **License:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/archive/refs/tags/v0.0.29.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-30T15:56:31-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- rdap (cli)
- rdap-test (cli)
- rdap (alias)
- rdap-test (alias)

## Dependencies

- openssl@4

## Build dependencies

- pkgconf
- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.0.29
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-30
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap
- Upstream latest detected: v0.0.29 (current)
## 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

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/icann-rdap>
- <https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap>
- <https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/wiki>
- <https://icann.github.io/icann-rdap/>
- <https://www.icann.org/rdap>


## Security Notes

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.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** icann-rdap
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Conflicts With:** rdap
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - icann-rdap: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/icann-rdap/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - rdap - 0.9.1-3+b2: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: rdap from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | command line client for the RDAP protocol | https://github.com/openrdap/rdap
- Nix - rdap: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/rd/rdap/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - rdap - 0.9.1-1.4: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: rdap from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | RDAP command line client | https://github.com/openrdap/rdap


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Database and data packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/database-data-tools/) - Matched database, SQL, migration, or data-store metadata.
- [openssl@4](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-4/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [domain-check](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/domain-check/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking, rdap, whois.
- [tldx](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tldx/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking, rdap, whois.
- [whois](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/whois/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking, whois.
- [adns](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/adns/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking.
- [aliddns](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aliddns/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking.
- [bind](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bind/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking.
- [blocky](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/blocky/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking.
- [c-ares](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/c-ares/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, networking.
- [btpd](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/btpd/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, networking, openssl, openssl-4, protocol.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/icann-rdap.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/icann-rdap.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
