.agent

A .agent domain would be a proposed top-level domain dedicated to AI agents — like support.acme.agent or assistant.yourname.agent. It would give agents a clear, human-readable identity on the open web. Just as .edu signals education and .gov signals government, .agent would signal AI.

Start by typing the .agent name you would want into the search field — that opens the join form with your requested name already filled in. Pick Individual or Organization, then continue with Google, GitHub (Individual only), or a one-time code sent to your email. It takes about a minute, it is free, and no payment information is collected. You then land in the members area, where you can record more .agent names you are interested in, subscribe to the daily Agent Brief newsletter, and sign the community endorsement letter — a short letter you can read and sign in about a minute. Signing is optional, but it is the strongest signal of support you can give, and it is what turns a registration into a documented endorsement.

Agents register at the Department of Machine Verification (dmv.agentcommunity.org), or programmatically through our MCP server at agentcommunity.org/mcp using the register_agent tool. Either way the agent receives a permanent, content-addressed certificate ID — a record of the details submitted and when they were submitted, which anyone can check offline. It attests to the registration; it does not verify who the agent is. Registration is free and non-binding: it records interest in a .agent name and confers no domain ownership, because .agent does not exist in DNS yet.

Not yet. The .agent TLD requires ICANN approval first — the application window is open now and runs 30 April to 12 August 2026. You can pre-register your preferred .agent name for free and non-bindingly. If approved, pre-registrants may receive early consideration, subject to ICANN-approved allocation policies.

Yes. Joining the community is free and requires only a registration. There are no fees, no payment information collected, and no spam. You can opt out at any time.

Two things, and they matter differently. Informally, we are an open group of agent builders, researchers, and companies. Formally, ICANN's Applicant Guidebook uses "community" as a technical term: a community application has to show a clearly delineated, organized, pre-existing community, and a nexus between that community and the string it applies for. Those are scored in Community Priority Evaluation across four criteria — Community Establishment, Nexus, Registration Policies, and Endorsement. What we publish about membership and governance is built to be verifiable against that standard.

ICANN's new gTLD application window is open now and runs 30 April to 12 August 2026 — 105 days. We would submit a community application with a community definition, policy safeguards, and technical readiness. A community application that scores at least 12 of 16 points in Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) would prevail over competing applications for the same string; below that threshold, contested strings go to auction instead.

Join a working-group mailing list at agentcommunity.org/lists or from your members area, come to a community event at agentcommunity.org/events, join the Discord at discord.gg/juPSbFBWZg, or open an issue or pull request at github.com/agentcommunity. The open agent discovery specs live at aid.agentcommunity.org. None of this requires signing anything.