domain lookup did not work

[randyqx]

so i decided to take it for a spin. sierra on a mid-2014 rmbp. did a
simple gem install.

ryuu.psg.com:/usr/local/src# gem install nicinfo-1.1.1.gem 
Successfully installed nicinfo-1.1.1
Parsing documentation for nicinfo-1.1.1
Installing ri documentation for nicinfo-1.1.1
1 gem installed

fwiw, the docco install took foreverrrrrrr

it worked for ip addresses, less so for domain names

ryuu.psg.com:/Users/randy> nicinfo rg.net       
# NicInfo v.1.1.1
# Query yielded no results.

[ NOTICE ] Terms of Service
         1 By using the ARIN RDAP/Whois service, you are agreeing to the
           RDAP/Whois Terms of Use
     About https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html

 [ ERROR ] DOMAIN NOT FOUND
      Code 404
         1 The domain you are seeking as 'rg.net.' is/are not here.

even being explicit did not help

ryuu.psg.com:/Users/randy> nicinfo -t domain psg.com
# NicInfo v.1.1.1
# Query yielded no results.

[ NOTICE ] Terms of Service
         1 By using the ARIN RDAP/Whois service, you are agreeing to the
           RDAP/Whois Terms of Use
     About https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html

 [ ERROR ] DOMAIN NOT FOUND
      Code 404
         1 The domain you are seeking as 'psg.com.' is/are not here.

i assume i am doing something st00pid, but what? and how to debug?

[anewton1998]

You are not doing anything stupid. To date, the only domain registry that has formally fielded an RDAP server is CZNic. The list is kept by IANA here: http://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json

[randyqx]

to quote sandy, "oh scissors"

thanks. i'll go and try and be stupid elsewhere

[purplehat7]

FWIW that list has been updated to include a .com and .net entry: https://rdap-pilot.verisignlabs.com.

If you do something like the following you seem to get a response back:

nicinfo -t domain -b https://rdap-pilot.verisignlabs.com/rdap/v1/domain cnn.com

[anewton1998]

Thanks. Looking at http://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json it seems to have some new stuff.
I'll see about bringing that in.