# Blog — Agent Community

Long-form posts on standards, governance, and what we're building.

- [What Agent Community is](/blog/what-agent-community-is) — 2026-07-26
  We are usually described as the group applying for the .agent top-level domain. That is one thing we do, and it is not the point. Here is what the community actually is, what it does, and where .agent fits.

- [Use ChatGPT to join Agent Community](/blog/chatgpt-plugin) — 2026-07-23
  The Agent Community ChatGPT plugin is live: join from a conversation, look up members, and pre-register a .agent identity name through the DMV.

- [What a verified agent is, and why it matters](/blog/what-a-trusted-agent-means) — 2026-06-30
  In a world where anyone can run hundreds of thousands of agents, the hard part is telling an agent that mimics a human from one that genuinely represents a real, accountable party. Here is what a verified agent is, and why that difference will matter.

- [Our San Francisco Kickoff](/blog/sf-kickoff) — 2026-06-26
  On June 26 we gathered the community in San Francisco with board members Esther Dyson and Tim O'Reilly to talk through where the agentic web is going. Watch the recording, or read the recap below.

- [ARD Finds the Agent, AID Proves It](/blog/ard-finds-aid-proves) — 2026-06-24
  How Agent Identity & Discovery fits under Google's new Agentic Resource Discovery spec, and why identity is the part search leaves open.

- [What Makes a Trust Anchor External](/blog/trust-anchor-external) — 2026-06-22
  An endpoint proof is only as strong as the independence of the channel that publishes the key from the endpoint that holds it. Why AID anchors the key in DNS, what that buys, and what it does not.

- [7,000 organizations. So we built them a planet.](/blog/member-globe) — 2026-06-11
  Crossing a dream line called for more than a counter going up. The new member globe shows who is actually building the agentic web, everywhere.

- [AID v2 is live](/blog/aid-v2) — 2026-06-08
  Agent Identity & Discovery v2 makes AID the 0-th hop for agent discovery: a DNS-first endpoint and key anchor with sharper PKA, updated SDKs, and a cleaner migration path.

- [We had the wildest 24 hours](/blog/brave-takeover) — 2026-05-26
  For one day, Brave Search put .agent and Agent Community on its homepage. Here is how the collaboration came together, what people saw, and why it mattered to the community.

- [Where AID Fits with auth.md](/blog/aid-auth-md-alignment) — 2026-05-23
  WorkOS auth.md gives agents a way to register with a service after they reach it. AID gives that flow a DNS-first, optionally key-proven first hop.

- [Know your .agent!](/blog/know-your-agent) — 2026-05-05
  ICANN founding chair Esther Dyson on why public-facing AI agents need a 'Know Your Agent' regime — and why .agent should be community-governed, not auctioned.

- [The Emerging Agent Discovery Stack](/blog/emerging-agent-discovery-stack) — 2026-04-24
  AI agent discovery has not settled on one protocol; experiments are revealing a layered stack of DNS bootstrap, trust, registries, manifests, overlays, governance, and commerce.

- [CPE, auctions, and the 2026 gTLD round: a complete guide](/blog/how-the-2026-round-works) — 2026-04-20
  A full walkthrough of how ICANN decides who gets a top-level domain in 2026: the application lifecycle, Community Priority Evaluation, auctions of last resort, fees, and timing, end to end.

- [The Missing First Hop](/blog/missing-first-hop) — 2026-04-18
  A proposed §10.9.0 for draft-klrc-aiagent-auth: DNS-based first-hop discovery slots beneath OAuth metadata without conflict.

- [From 3,000 to 21,000: what we shipped this week](/blog/scaling-week) — 2026-03-30
  Brave endorsed the Agent Community on Tuesday. Membership surged 7x. Here is what we did behind the scenes to keep everything running.

- [AID is now an IETF Internet-Draft](/blog/aid-ietf-internet-draft) — 2026-03-16
  We submitted draft-nemethi-aid-agent-identity-discovery-00 to the IETF Datatracker on March 16, 2026, documenting the original AID draft and _agent label-governance request.

- [Why AID ships on TXT records](/blog/why-txt-records) — 2026-03-16
  We like SVCB. We plan to use it. But a third of DNS providers can't publish one yet, and agent adoption isn't waiting for them.

- [Bootstrapping ARDP via AID: A Non-Normative Interop Mapping](/blog/bootstrapping-ardp-via-aid) — 2026-03-09
  How AID DNS records can serve as a lightweight bootstrap layer for ARDP agent resolution and discovery. An optional, illustrative mapping for deployments where the ARDP authority is a DNS name.

- [PKA as External Trust Anchor](/blog/external_identity_anchor) — 2026-03-04
  How AID PKA addresses the cross-boundary agent authentication problem — and what questions remain open.

- [Code is State](/blog/code-is-state) — 2026-03-03
  Every variable in your program is mutable state. Your source code is not. That deal is off. We now have systems that rewrite their own code as a normal part of operation.

- [Code Mode and AID: Massive tool scale, clean discovery](/blog/codemode-and-aid) — 2026-02-23
  Code Mode makes large APIs practical for agents by compressing tool surface area. AID stays focused on DNS-first discovery, so protocol routing remains simple and interoperable.

- [WebMCP and AID: Browser-first tools meet Internet-first discovery](/blog/webmcp-and-aid) — 2026-02-13
  Google’s WebMCP makes websites agent-ready inside the browser. AID stays DNS-native so agents can discover endpoints from any domain, with or without a website.

- [Why AID Now Supports UCP](/blog/why-aid-now-supports-ucp) — 2026-02-05
  Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is now supported in AID, enabling agents to discover and transact with commerce endpoints via DNS.

- [Add AID to ERC-8004: keep discovery fast, keep identity portable](/blog/aid-to-8004) — 2026-01-30
  Why ERC-8004 needs a DNS-first discovery layer to stay fresh and portable

- [AgentBrief: a curation agent for the agentic web](/blog/agent-brief-agentic-news) — 2026-01-16
  A workflow-first newsroom built on taste, signal, and the agentic web

- [Agent Identity & Discovery](/blog/agent-identity-and-discovery) — 2025-09-01
  identity for the agentic web

- [Identity joins discovery - from v1 to v1.1](/blog/identity-joins-discovery) — 2025-08-31
  Moving from discovery to trusted discovery

- [Web Bot Auth, not for agents](/blog/web_auth_box_not_for_agents) — 2025-08-23
  signed interactions, or a product moat wrapped in a standard?

- [Door or Address book](/blog/door_or_address_book) — 2025-07-25
  How does an AI agent know what to do when it hits a locked door on the web?

- [Missing grep mcp](/blog/missing_grep_mcp) — 2025-07-24
  The discovery layer MCP forgot: AID uses a DNS TXT record to map domains to MCP endpoints so hosts can auto-connect.

- [Finding door a2a](/blog/finding_door_a2a) — 2025-07-23
  Use DNS to find an agent’s front door: AID’s TXT record points to an A2A AgentCard so clients can discover and connect cleanly.

- [What Should Happen When You Type a Domain Name?](/blog/what_when_domain) — 2025-07-22
  Typing a domain should just connect: AID adds a DNS-based address book so apps discover an agent’s URI and protocol automatically.

- [Missing record](/blog/missing_record) — 2025-07-21
  The MX-like record for agents: AID’s DNS TXT points any domain to its agent (MCP, A2A, or OpenAPI) for zero-friction discovery.

- [12 out of 16](/blog/twelve-out-of-sixteen) — 2025-04-22
  The SubPro Implementation Review Team working documents put the CPE bar at 12 out of 16 for 2026 — and it lines up with what we expected.

- [Why .agent has to be a community bid](/blog/why-community-bid) — 2025-02-25
  CPE, ICANN's bylaws, and what a decade of community applications tells us about the work ahead.

- [Day One](/blog/day-one) — 2025-01-04
  Registering the X account, buying the first domain, and setting out to build a community-governed .agent TLD.

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