Domain registration

This reads the registry's own registration record over RDAP and reports the one answer that ends the conversation: the registry has no record of this name. Not an error, not a rate limit — a definitive "not found".

There are two ways a name gets there. It was never registered, or it was registered and has been through the entire lifecycle: expiry, an auto-renew grace period, redemption, pending delete, release. At the end of that it is an ordinary available name that anyone can buy, and valuable ones are bought within seconds of dropping by services that exist to watch for it.

Everything else in this report is then a probe against a name with nothing behind it. The delegation check will be reporting NXDOMAIN from the parent for the same reason — that is the DNS-side symptom, and this is the cause.

If the name should be yours and recently was, find out where in the lifecycle it is before doing anything else. Inside the redemption period your registrar can restore it, at a fee typically many times the renewal price. After pending delete it is gone, and the only route back is buying it from whoever took it.

If you are registering it fresh, nothing here is a fault — the report becomes meaningful once the name exists and has nameservers.

Whatever the outcome, fix the process that led here: auto-renew on, a payment method that has not expired, and a registrar account contact that is a role address rather than somebody who has left. A failed auto-renew charged to a dead card, with the warnings going to a mailbox nobody reads, is how nearly every one of these happens.