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title: "Day One"
description: "Registering the X account, buying the first domain, and setting out to build a community-governed .agent TLD."
author: Balázs Nemethi
date: 2025-01-04
tags: [community, icann, agent, origin]
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# Day One

Today I bought `agentdomain.xyz` and registered an X account. That's the online part. The thinking started months ago.

The first shape was practical: agents need domains. The agentic web will be far bigger and faster than today's internet used by humans, and there's no reason to pretend the address system for it should be an afterthought. Creating a namespace for all agents just makes sense.

I liked the sound of `.agentdomain` for a while. Then I kept reading.

The more I read, the clearer it got. The only version worth doing is community-governed, within whatever ICANN allows. Not a brand, not a platform, not a registry company charging rent on everyone else's work. A TLD where the people and organizations using it set the direction.

The path is `.agent`, through ICANN's community-bid process. That's what that process exists for.

Mission: build the community that can win a community-governed `.agent` TLD.

If this is your thing, follow along.

— Balazs

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**Updated August 2025** — the X account is now [@agentcommunity_](https://x.com/agentcommunity_) (previously `@agentdomainxyz`), and the community lives at [agentcommunity.org](https://agentcommunity.org). `agentdomain.xyz` pointed the way; the work belongs to a community.