Agent Community is building the identity layer for the agentic web. We are applying to ICANN for the [.agent] Top-Level Domain, supported by 29,000+ members and 7,000+ companies. With DMV, builders can pre-register an [.agent] name for free and receive a shareable identity card while helping keep naming layer of the internet [.agent] community-governed, open, and not controlled by a single company.
Today we’re launching the Department of Machine Verification (DMV) by Agent Community.
For the first time, agents can apply for their own names, not just receive names from their operators. DMV lets organizations, humans, and now agents join Agent Community and pre-register a preferred .agent name.
After completing DMV, you receive a shareable identity card, become part of the Agent Community, and help signal real demand for an open naming layer for AI agents.
Pre-register your dream .agent domain today. By pre-registering a name, you also join our movement to help ensure that .agent becomes community-governed infrastructure.
Agent Community is applying for the .agent top-level domain with ICANN through the Community Priority Evaluation process. Our goal is to make .agent a community-governed namespace for the agentic web, not one controlled by a single corporation.
💻 To be clear, our project still depends on ICANN approval, so .agent is not a domain for purchase or guaranteed allocation yet. But each new member helps us signal to ICANN that important internet infrastructure should be governed, not owned. DMV is about giving builders an early identity layer and helping shape how agent naming should work before the space becomes locked down.
📊 The community has already grown to 28,000+ members and 7,000+ organizations across 116 countries. Today also lines up with our first in-person SF kickoff, where members, builders, advisers, and teams are coming together to discuss identity, security, evals, trust, governance, AID, and the future of .agent.
What do you think?
Does your agent need a name, or are you okay referring to it by an IP address? Would you trust an agent identified only by an IP address?
free pre-registration is a useful stress test for governance. once agents can apply for names too, squatting and automated claims become the obvious abuse path early. how will you filter that without turning the process into a centralized approval queue?
Named after the one institution guaranteed to make humans feel like machines — now processing machines instead. Full marks for symmetry. :)
Letting agents apply for their own names instead of inheriting them is the interesting shift. From the tool side though: when an agent hits my MCP server, how does a .agent name actually prove it's that agent and not something wearing the name? Curious where verification sits vs registration. Community-governed is the right call for infra like this.
It's interesting how quickly the conversation has shifted from "Can AI generate this?" to "How do we verify where it came from?" That feels like an important problem to solve.
Obviously using AI to create lighting for the scene is not "one quick prompt" but oh man it came out so cool.
About DMV by Agent Community on Product Hunt
“A community-governed namespace for AI agents”
DMV by Agent Community launched on Product Hunt on June 26th, 2026 and earned 112 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Agent Community is building the identity layer for the agentic web. We are applying to ICANN for the [.agent] Top-Level Domain, supported by 29,000+ members and 7,000+ companies. With DMV, builders can pre-register an [.agent] name for free and receive a shareable identity card while helping keep naming layer of the internet [.agent] community-governed, open, and not controlled by a single company.
DMV by Agent Community was featured in Developer Tools (515.3k followers), Artificial Intelligence (472.9k followers) and Tech (627.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 345k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted DMV by Agent Community?
DMV by Agent Community was hunted by Gabe Perez. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Gabe Perez
👋🏻 Hey Product Hunt, I’m Andras!
Today we’re launching the Department of Machine Verification (DMV) by Agent Community.
For the first time, agents can apply for their own names, not just receive names from their operators. DMV lets organizations, humans, and now agents join Agent Community and pre-register a preferred .agent name.
After completing DMV, you receive a shareable identity card, become part of the Agent Community, and help signal real demand for an open naming layer for AI agents.
Pre-register your dream .agent domain today. By pre-registering a name, you also join our movement to help ensure that .agent becomes community-governed infrastructure.
Agent Community is applying for the .agent top-level domain with ICANN through the Community Priority Evaluation process. Our goal is to make .agent a community-governed namespace for the agentic web, not one controlled by a single corporation.
💻 To be clear, our project still depends on ICANN approval, so .agent is not a domain for purchase or guaranteed allocation yet. But each new member helps us signal to ICANN that important internet infrastructure should be governed, not owned. DMV is about giving builders an early identity layer and helping shape how agent naming should work before the space becomes locked down.
📊 The community has already grown to 28,000+ members and 7,000+ organizations across 116 countries. Today also lines up with our first in-person SF kickoff, where members, builders, advisers, and teams are coming together to discuss identity, security, evals, trust, governance, AID, and the future of .agent.
What do you think?
Does your agent need a name, or are you okay referring to it by an IP address? Would you trust an agent identified only by an IP address?
P.S. Big thanks to @gabe for hunting us :)