Questions about .agent.

Think of it like .edu for education or .gov for government, but for AI agents. A .agent domain (like support.acme.agent or assistant.yourname.agent) is a proposed top-level domain that would give agents a readable identity on the open web. You can tell who built an agent and who is accountable for it just by looking at the name.

TLD stands for top-level domain, the last part of a web address like .com or .dev. The .agent TLD is a proposed new one specifically for AI agents. It does not exist yet. If approved by ICANN, it would let agents have their own discoverable identities through regular DNS, the same infrastructure that powers every other domain on the internet.

No. The .agent TLD does not exist in DNS yet. It needs ICANN approval first, and the application window is open now and runs 30 April to 12 August 2026. What you can do now is pre-register your preferred name for free. You may receive prioritized access if the TLD goes live, subject to ICANN-approved allocation policies, and it is non-binding.

A .com subdomain like myagent.somecompany.com ties that agent's identity to one company's domain. If they shut down or change their mind, the agent's name disappears. The .agent TLD would be a shared namespace with no single owner. When you see a .agent address, you know it is an agent, and the governance rules would be set by the community, not one company.

Anyone who builds or runs AI agents. Solo developer? You could get yourname.agent. Company with a support bot? support.acme.agent. Running a fleet of logistics agents? fleet.logistics.agent. Registration policies will be developed through community governance and submitted for ICANN approval so the rules stay fair as the space grows.

You pick a .agent name you want and reserve it. No cost, no payment info, no commitment. If ICANN approves the TLD, founding members who pre-registered may receive early consideration, subject to ICANN-approved allocation policies. If multiple people want the same name, allocation rules will be developed through community governance and submitted for ICANN approval. Popular or premium strings may have extra steps.

Yes. Free to join, no payment info, no spam. The point of membership is building the numbers we need for the ICANN application. More members means a stronger case that this is a real community, not a corporate land grab. You can leave whenever you want.

The application window is open now and runs 30 April to 12 August 2026 — 105 days. We submit an application covering the community definition, policy safeguards, and technical readiness. If someone else also applies for .agent, it goes to Community Priority Evaluation (CPE), where a panel scores community-backed applications against corporate bids on a 16-point scale. You need 12 points to win. The four criteria are community establishment, nexus between the string and the community, registration policies, and community endorsement.

Whoever controls the .agent naming layer decides who gets a name, what the rules are, and who gets blocked. If one corporation owns the registry, every agent builder becomes a tenant on their platform, subject to whatever pricing and policies that company feels like setting. The alternative is transparent rules proposed by the people who actually build and use agents, within the framework ICANN requires.

We keep going. The AID protocol, the open-source tooling, and the governance work all stand on their own regardless of the TLD outcome. If we do not get approved this round, we apply again in the next window with a bigger community behind us.

It is the part of the internet where AI agents do things on their own: handling customer support, reviewing code, coordinating logistics, running research. More and more agents are showing up, and right now there is no good way to tell who built them, what they do, or whether you should trust them. We think that needs fixing.

The community was founded in 2024 and now has over 28,000 members, including thousands of companies and developers. It is community-governed. Policies, standards, and tooling come from working groups of builders and researchers, not from a single company making decisions behind closed doors.

No. We do not have a token, a coin, or any meme coin. We have not created or promoted one, and we do not make money from any. If something out there is using our name, it has nothing to do with us. Plenty of our members work on crypto and agents — that is great. We just do not do coins. We are applying for .agent at ICANN. A token association would hurt our Community Priority Evaluation — that is the scoring process that decides whether 28,000+ members actually get the TLD they signed up for. The answer is no, and it is not changing.

AID is an open protocol that publishes machine-readable identity records as DNS TXT entries. Anyone can look up who built an agent, what it does, and what policies it follows using standard DNS queries. The spec is maintained by Agent Community and works whether or not the .agent TLD exists.

Invite companies. That is the single biggest thing right now. ICANN's Community Priority Evaluation weighs organizational support heavily, so every company that joins actually moves the needle. Want to help spread the word? Email collab@agentcommunity.org and we will send you decks and templates you can use.