Agent Community Foundation
Open Agent Registry, Inc. filed the community application for the proposed .agent top-level domain in August 2026. The application names the Foundation as the independent body that would direct registration policy for the namespace, if ICANN approves the application.
Founding board
Appointments are still in progress.
Long-time techy, founding chair of ICANN (1998–2000), author of the forthcoming book “In Defense of Limits: Human time and AI scale” (MIT Press).
Founder of Groundmark, a DNS-anchored protocol for agent accountability, and of RealNames. President and CEO of Tucows from 1999 to 2025, with three decades in domains, registrars and ICANN policy.
Creator of AAuth, a protocol for authenticating agents and authorizing what they do, and founder and CEO of Hellō, a cooperative identity platform. Editor of OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749) and a co-founder of the OpenID Foundation.
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Phorvex. Creator of Epoch Protocol: hardware substrate isolation and out-of-band containment for agents.
Started Agent Community, founded Open Agent Registry, Inc. and filed the community application. Before that he spent a decade in digital identity, as a director at the Decentralized Identity Foundation and the founder of taqanu and Veri Labs.
- Legal name
- Agent Community Foundation
- Entity
- Delaware nonprofit nonstock corporation
- Tax status
- 501(c)(4)