The same AI that makes it easy to build a legitimate online business also makes it trivial to spin up fake domains, cloned websites, and full marketing funnels in minutes. In this post I look at why agent identity matters, what initiatives are emerging to address it, and whether the industry can coalesce around standards before fragmentation becomes its own problem.
Category Archives: Cybercrime
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.
If you could fix one thing on the Internet, what would it be?
I asked the question to one of the world’s most foremost experts in digital security and fighting cybercrime. Listen to the podcast.
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