AI Agents and DNS Abuse: The 2026 Conversation the Industry Needs to Have

By 2030, autonomous AI agents could outnumber human domain registrants 3-to-1. The domain industry is building for legitimate use cases, but the real challenge is abuse at machine speed and a new international legal framework that treats DNS operators as evidence holders for the gravest international crimes.

Carel Bitter updates us on Spamhaus, botnet C&C, and criminal domain name usage trends

25 minute discussion covering the latest in cyber threats that they track, regulatory interest observations and related reports on domain abuse, criminal domain name usage trends that propagate phishing, malware, and botnets, the issues of trust, authenticating users, how botnet command and control points work, and potential threats due to the war in Ukraine.