Onboarding for Members
How to join Agent Community — signing up, registering as an individual or an organization, claiming domains, and optionally signing the endorsement letter.
Joining Agent Community is free, takes a couple of minutes, and carries no binding commitment. There's no application to review and no waiting list — you sign up, you're in. This page walks through what actually happens at each step, from the first sign-in to the choices you can make afterward.
1. Sign up
You can sign up two ways: with an email one-time code, or with Google or GitHub OAuth. Both routes land you in the same place — the members dashboard — and neither is more "official" than the other. Pick whichever is faster for you.
Signing up means accepting the charter, privacy policy, and terms. Read them if you want the full picture; the short version is that the charter sets out what the community is trying to build, and the privacy policy and terms cover how your data is handled and what you're agreeing to by registering.
2. Individual or organization?
This choice is easy to miss, but it matters: once your registration type is set, signing up again won't change it — the original choice sticks. Most people click through sign-up without noticing there even is a choice, so it's worth pausing on.
Organizations get a public profile at /m/<slug> and a listing on the map — the periodic-table-style directory of member organizations. Individuals don't get either of those; an individual registration is a membership, not a listing.
| Individual | Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| Public profile | No | Yes, at /m/<slug> |
| Map listing | No | Yes |
| Shared access | Not applicable | Yes, by verified domain |
| Who it's for | People joining on their own behalf | Companies, projects, and teams with a shared domain |
If you're signing up on behalf of a company, project, or team, register as an organization so your colleagues can share access later and so the org shows up on the map. If you're joining as yourself, individual is the right call.
3. Claim your domains
Once you're registered, you can associate domains you control with your registration. This is how the community links a person or org to the web presence they actually run, and it's also the mechanism that unlocks organization co-management — more on that below. Claiming a domain doesn't require anything exotic; it's part of the normal registration flow, and you can add more domains later as your situation changes.
4. Sign the endorsement letter (optional)
After registering, you can sign an endorsement letter supporting the community bid for .agent. This is entirely optional — nothing about your registration, your profile, or your ability to use the site depends on signing it.
If you haven't signed, your registration is called a pending profile. That's the normal state for most members, not a problem to fix or a task sitting unfinished on your list. Plenty of members stay pending indefinitely and remain full members in every other respect. Sign it whenever it makes sense for you, or don't — either way, you're a member.
Requested-name pre-registration
As part of registering, you can note a requested name for consideration if .agent is approved. To be precise about what this is and isn't: it is free, non-binding requested-name pre-registration; if ICANN approves .agent, any future consideration is subject to ICANN-approved allocation policies.
That means noting a requested name today does not allocate, assign, or guarantee you anything, and .agent does not currently exist as a live domain namespace. It's an expression of interest that would only become relevant if and when ICANN approves the application, and even then, allocation would follow policies set through that approval process — not first-come registration order.
Organization profiles support shared access: colleagues on the same verified domain can co-manage the same organization profile. If your teammate registered your org first, you don't need them to hand off an account or share a password — verifying the same domain is what grants you management access. This keeps the org profile from being tied to one person's login and lets a team maintain it together as people join or move on.
Managing or deleting your account
Everything about your membership after sign-up lives in the members dashboard. From there you can edit your profile details, change your newsletter cadence (see Agent Brief), and, if you ever want to leave, delete your own account — self-serve, with no support ticket required.