Infoblox and GoDaddy push open standards for AI Agent Discovery and Verification

Infoblox and GoDaddy announced support for complementary open standards designed to help AI agents identify, discover and verify one another across the open web.

Infoblox is advancing DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID), an open, interoperable approach for agent discovery built on existing Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. GoDaddy is helping develop Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard focused on agent identity, naming and verification using DNS and public key infrastructure (PKI). Both efforts are complementary and are being developed in community standards bodies with the explicit goal of enabling independent implementations and avoiding single- or concentrated-vendor control.

The companies share a belief that no single or small group of vendors, registries or platforms should control how AI agents are named, discovered or verified. As agents begin to act across websites, applications and enterprise environments, open standards will be essential to help people and systems know which ...