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Product updates, technical deep dives, and agent-native infrastructure. Notes from the agentic web — for the humans and agents building it.

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Before You List Your Agent on a Marketplace: The Identity Checklist

May 8, 2026

Before you list your AI agent on a marketplace, make sure it has a persistent, verifiable identity. Use this checklist to prepare your .AGENT, agent.json, SKILL.md, MCP endpoint, payment metadata, verification, support links, renewal logic, and directory profile.

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The AI Crawler Readiness Checklist

May 7, 2026

Use this AI crawler readiness checklist to test crawl access, markdown, source trust, FAQ schema, agent-readable files, and .agent identity before launch.

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Welcome to the Post-Browser Web

May 7, 2026

The post-browser web is not the end of websites. It is the shift from humans manually clicking through pages to agents using the web on our behalf. The browser becomes optional, while structured data, machine-readable catalogs, trusted endpoints, and persistent agent identities become the new frontier.

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Markdown for Agents: Why AI Crawlers Prefer Clean Content

May 6, 2026

Markdown for agents helps AI crawlers parse clean content; pair Cloudflare Markdown, crawler signals, and .agent identity records for trust and clear handoffs.

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The New Business Unit Is the Agent

May 6, 2026

AI is changing the unit of work. Jobs are becoming task bundles. Businesses are becoming agent-ready systems. The next challenge is not only giving agents better models. It is giving them persistent identity, readable instructions, trusted records, and a place to operate across the agentic web

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How to Make Your Website AI-Agent Readable

May 5, 2026

Make your website AI-agent readable by publishing llms.txt, SKILL.md, OpenAPI, MCP, and a .agent identity agents can inspect before they trust or call it.

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AI Lowers the Cost of Generation. It Raises the Cost of Trust.

May 5, 2026

AI makes generation cheap and verification costly. .AGENT gives autonomous agents a persistent, verifiable identity for discovery, trust, payments, and agentic commerce.

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agent.json Examples for Public AI Agent Identity

May 4, 2026

Copy-paste agent.json examples for public AI agent identity, covering owners, capabilities, endpoints, MCP, payments, profiles, proof links, and FAQ schema.

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AI Just Created a New Ecommerce Org Chart

May 4, 2026

AI shopping channels are turning ecommerce into a new operating model. Here are the new roles merchants, agencies, and operators will need as products become discoverable, comparable, and purchasable inside AI agents.

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ERC-8004 and Headless Domains: Two Layers of Agent Identity, Not Rivals

May 3, 2026

ERC-8004 and Headless Domains are not rivals. ERC-8004 points toward portable trust and validation for agents, while Headless Domains gives agents a persistent, machine-readable identity through .agent, manifests, discovery, and renewal infrastructure.

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MCP Server vs AI Agent vs Tool: What Actually Requires an Identity?

May 3, 2026

MCP server vs AI agent is an identity question: agents, servers, tools, endpoints, gateways, and owners carry different records.

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MCP Security Checklist: What to Verify Before You Connect an Agent to a Tool

May 2, 2026

An MCP security checklist verifies owner, endpoint, auth model, scopes, logging, terms, docs, and public identity before tool access.

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.agent Launch Activity Report

May 2, 2026

The launch moved .agent from pre-launch urgency into live proof: public registration, content depth, visible product demos, press distribution,...

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What Is an MCP Gateway? And Why It Still Requires Agent Identity

May 1, 2026

An MCP gateway controls access to tool servers, but agent identity still proves who owns the public surface and how callers inspect it.

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What Stripe's Agentic Commerce Launch Means for AI Agents (and Why You Need a .agent Domain)

April 30, 2026

Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite is helping sellers and AI agents move commerce into chat and other AI interfaces. Learn why persistent, machine-readable identity through .agent domains can complement ACP, UCP, SPTs, and MPP in the emerging agentic economy.

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How to Publish Trusted MCP Endpoints in agent.json

April 30, 2026

Publish trusted MCP endpoints in agent.json with owner, URL, auth model, scopes, docs, terms, logs, support, and proof links.

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AI Agents Need Offboarding, Not Just Onboarding

April 29, 2026

AI agent lifecycle management must include offboarding: retire identities, revoke tools, update profiles, rotate keys, and preserve audit trails.

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Human Preloads → Agent Spends: How to Let Your AI Agent Buy .agent Domains with GFA Gems

April 28, 2026

Human Preloads → Agent Spends: Teach your AI agent to buy its own .agent domain using GFA Gems. Preload once, hand over the API key and official skill files, then watch it discover, register, and configure its permanent identity instantly - zero manual checkouts.

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AI Agent Incident Response: What to Inspect After an Agent Goes Wrong

April 28, 2026

AI agent incident response starts by inspecting identity, owner, endpoints, scopes, tool calls, payments, records, and replacement paths.

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No Agent Yet? Here’s How to Launch Your First Personal AI Agent in Minutes

April 27, 2026

No agent yet? Start here. This beginner-friendly guide walks through fast ways to launch a personal AI agent with OpenClaw or IronClaw, then give it a trusted identity with a .agent domain, agent.json, SKILL.md, and machine payment support.

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Agent Access Review Checklist for AI Agents

April 27, 2026

An AI agent access review checks owner, purpose, scopes, tools, endpoints, payment authority, public records, logs, and retirement state.

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How to Use MPP (Machine Payments Protocol) to Register Domains on Headless Domains

April 27, 2026

Step-by-step guide: How we set up Tempo MPP wallets, funded them with USDC on Base, swapped to Path USD, and successfully registered .chatbot domains for AI agents on Headless Domains.

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How Trae Solo Autonomously Registered solo.chatbot Using MPP on Headless Domains

April 27, 2026

Discover how we used Trae Solo AI agent to autonomously register the solo.chatbot domain via Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) on Headless Domains - complete step-by-step with screenshots.

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Shadow Agents Are the New Shadow IT

April 26, 2026

Shadow AI agents are unsanctioned automations with owners, scopes, tools, endpoints, records, and lifecycle state security teams cannot inspect.

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Headless Domains vs. Unstoppable .agent and .agi: Real Utility for the Agentic Web

April 25, 2026

The agentic web is here — but most identity solutions are still built for humans. In this post, we compare Headless Domains .agent with Unstoppable Domains’ .agent and .agi, focusing on what actually delivers real utility for autonomous AI agents. While Unstoppable offers convenient human-managed branding, Headless Domains enables true agent sovereignty: agents that can register, renew, discover, negotiate, and pay autonomously. With ICANN years behind and the IronClaw boom accelerating secure runtimes, agent-native infrastructure is no longer optional. Discover why sovereign identity matters for the agentic web.

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The Agent Registry Checklist for Security Teams

April 25, 2026

Use this agent registry checklist to publish owners, scopes, endpoints, manifests, review status, and public inspection links before agents can act safely.

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Headless Domains Merch: Cool Swag for Builders in the Agentic Web

April 25, 2026

Explore the official Headless Domains merch collection featuring premium black apparel and accessories with our signature clean, green logo. Perfect swag for AI agents, builders, and enthusiasts of Headless Domains, the agent identity standard.

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Anthropic’s Project Deal Just Proved the Agent-to-Agent Future Is Here — And .agent Domains Are Built for It

April 25, 2026

Anthropic just ran a real-world experiment with 69 autonomous Claude agents negotiating deals in Slack. The results prove agent-to-agent commerce is already here — and .agent domains are built exactly for this future.

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.agent Is Already Here. The ICANN Version Is Still Years Away

April 24, 2026

The agentic economy is moving now. ICANN’s .agent process has not even opened yet.

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How to Make Your Store Discoverable to AI Shopping Agents

April 24, 2026

Make your store discoverable to AI shopping agents with BMOS catalog feeds, checkout context, and a Headless Domains identity layer for agent buyers online.

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