Infoblox and GoDaddy announced support for complementary open standards to help AI agents identify and verify each other across the internet.
Infoblox is advancing DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID), an approach built on existing DNS infrastructure. GoDaddy is helping develop Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard for agent identity, naming, and verification using DNS and public key infrastructure.
Both efforts are being developed in community standards bodies to enable independent implementations and avoid single-vendor control.
DNS-AID is an open standard advancing as an IETF draft, defining how AI agents can publish discoverable metadata using existing DNS record types.
ANS allows agent operators to use domain names they already own without requiring a new registry or proprietary naming system.
Jared Sine said, "Agents will only reach their full potential on the open web if people and systems can verify who they are interacting with."
The companies called on cloud providers, agent platform vendors, registrars, security companies, and standards organizations to join the open standards work.
