Team
Built in the open by builders.
A volunteer-led community application for the .agent namespace, with contributors from across the agentic web.
Founder
Balázs Nemethi is a Hungarian technologist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of internet infrastructure, identity, and applied AI. He is the founder of Agent Community and the author of AID, a DNS-first standard for agent identity and discovery. His work focuses on how trust, discoverability, and coordination evolve as software agents become first-class actors on the internet.
Over the past decade, Balázs has built trust and identity infrastructure across fintech, web3, and digital standards — serving as a Director at the Decentralized Identity Foundation, founding taqanu (a financial-inclusion company working with UNHCR and major European banks), and later founding Veri Labs where he became the inventor on a granted U.S. patent for programmable access control on blockchain assets.
Team
Juan Caballero is a Berlin-based identity technologist who leads standards work at Agent Community. A former core staffer at the Decentralized Identity Foundation — where he co-chaired the Interoperability Working Group and led editorial, education, and community development — he led standards work on Verite, the verifiable credential framework created by Circle and Coinbase for crypto-native identity, and contributed to the UCAN specification for capability-based authorization in the Protocol Labs ecosystem. He co-chairs DIF's Trusted AI Agents working group and his deep expertise in DIDs, verifiable credentials, and capability certificates connects Agent Community to the communities of practice building scalable identity infrastructure for agentic systems.
At Agent Community, András Czeizel supports community growth around the .agent namespace. He believes that as software agents and LLM-powered tools become a larger part of the web, open, community-led identity infrastructure will matter more than ever — for him, .agent represents exactly the kind of forward-looking internet initiative worth building behind. A Hungarian founder and community builder focused on how people, products, and emerging internet trends connect, he is also the Founder & CEO of YourSitee, where he works on helping creators and professionals present their online presence in a simpler, more personal way.
Advisers
“Having seen both the good and the bad of the domain name system and how some registries added value with good governance while others just extracted rent, I would love to see Agent Community granted the opportunity and the responsibility for getting things right with .agent. If so, I’m eager to work with them to make that happen.”
Esther Dyson is a pioneering technology investor, author, and philanthropist who served as the founding Chairman of ICANN (1998–2000), the organization that governs the internet's domain name system. An influential angel investor in health care, AI, and digital technology, she previously ran EDventure Holdings and authored Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age.
Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, the technical publisher and learning platform he started in 1983, and a partner at the early-stage fund O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. He is widely credited with framing “open source software,” “Web 2.0,” and “government as a platform,” and is the author of WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017). He serves on the board of Code for America, among others. His current writing on O’Reilly Radar focuses on AI agents, open protocols like MCP, and how open standards can prevent platform lock-in as the agentic economy forms.
“Agents will soon represent every person, company, and institution on the internet. To ensure the agentic ecosystem is open and neutral, the identity layer for agents should not be for-profit or centralized. Agent Community is building that identity infrastructure in the open, not as an extractive platform.”
Illia Polosukhin co-authored “Attention Is All You Need” (2017), the Google Research paper that introduced the Transformer architecture underlying today’s large language models. After Google, he co-founded NEAR in 2017 — originally as an AI company, later reshaped into NEAR Protocol, a proof-of-stake sharded blockchain that launched in 2020. He was appointed CEO of the NEAR Foundation in November 2023 and now leads NEAR AI, focused on open-source infrastructure for confidential, decentralized AI computation and on a “User-Owned AI” thesis — the position that the identity and agency layers for agents should be open and community-governed rather than proprietary.
Ken Hansen brings over two decades of experience in domain name registries and internet infrastructure. He led Neustar's entry into the registry business — resulting in the ICANN award of .biz and the U.S. Department of Commerce selection of Neustar to operate .us — and later served as GM of the .nyc registry before co-founding the co.com Registry as CEO.
“In three years, your ‘agent’ will be doing everything from buying your groceries to managing your health data. If that identity is anchored in a TLD owned by a company whose business model is ‘data harvesting,’ you’ve already lost. Agent Community is the firebreak. We’re keeping the .agent namespace neutral because once a machine-readable identity is proprietary, privacy is dead.”
Zsolt Nemeth is the Founder and CEO of R6 Security, a cybersecurity company pioneering Automated Moving Target Defense for Kubernetes and AI infrastructure. A serial entrepreneur with a background in cryptography, he previously founded App-Ray Mobile Security (acquired by Guardsquare in 2020).
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