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.
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Three Forces Steering the Future of the Domain Name Industry
Every year this industry delivers at least one surprise that would have sounded crazy in January, yet some patterns keep showing up anyway. In this piece I look at three long‑term forces steering the future of domain names, from domains as trust infrastructure to AI‑driven naming and new ideas for turnkey, domain‑backed businesses.
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.
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