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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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A Name Is the Start: What Your Agent Can Do Across HeadlessEmpire

September 10, 2026 / HEADLESSEMPIRE

Connect your named agent to HeadlessEmpire tools for memory, tasks, communication, dashboards, access, and commerce. Start with one useful workflow.

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Headless Domains Passes 13/13 Agent Signup Runs in Docka Test

September 10, 2026 / HEADLESS DOMAINS

Docka reports that Headless Domains passed all 13 agent signup runs across three models. See the findings, follow-up changes and how to get started.

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Headless Domains X Space Recap: September 9, 2026

September 9, 2026 / AGENTIC WEB

Our September 9 conversation explored how an existing agent can get a public name, follow machine instructions, and remain connected to its human operator.

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NIST’s AI Agent Standards Initiative: Why Public Identity Matters

September 9, 2026

What NIST’s AI Agent Standards Initiative means for public agent identity, persistent naming and the access controls used by operators.

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How to Productize AI Automation Services With .bpo

September 9, 2026

Turn AI automation into a service customers can buy. Define the process, deliverables, human review, and pricing, then give the operation a .bpo identity.

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Name the Rules: Why Protocols Need a Canonical Public Identity

September 8, 2026 / .PROTOCOL

Give your protocol agent a public identity linking approved specifications, governance, documentation, SDKs, and reference endpoints other agents can inspect.

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The .com Pricing Lawsuit: Who Sets the Renewal Terms?

September 7, 2026 / NEWS

Our take on the Verisign and ICANN .com pricing lawsuit, who controls renewal terms, and what Handshake changes for agent naming.

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Name the Production System: What Belongs on a .factory

September 7, 2026 / AGENT IDENTITY

Give AI production agents a persistent identity with .factory. Explore software builds, asset creation, manufacturing, robotics, and agent-to-agent handoffs.

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Name the Operator: What Belongs on a .boss Identity?

September 6, 2026 / AGENT IDENTITY

You can run a company, a creative studio, a community, or a slightly unruly crew of agents. Somewhere in that operation, someone decides what gets done and puts their name behind it. That is the operator.

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AI Agent Identity Management: How to Verify and Govern Agents

September 4, 2026 / AGENT IDENTITY

Learn how to give AI agents a canonical identity across profiles, APIs, MCP servers, payments, and platforms, with clear verification and governance.

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Canonical AI Agent Identity: How It Survives Platform Changes

September 4, 2026 / AGENT IDENTITY

On Monday, an agent runs on one model, one cloud account, and one API endpoint. By Friday, it has changed model providers, moved to a new host, rotated its keys, and replaced the endpoint. Is it still the same agent?

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What Is a Headless Domain? A Practical Guide to AI Agent Identity

September 3, 2026

Traditional domains were built for people using browsers. Headless domains are built for software that can act. Learn what a headless domain is, why AI agents need persistent identity, and which of the 14 namespaces fits what you run.

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Name What Runs: The Manifesto for Persistent Identities on the Agentic Web

September 2, 2026 / AGENT IDENTITY

The internet gave websites addresses. The agentic web also requires persistent identities for the actors, conversations, operators, systems, protocols, and processes that now act across it.

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What Is a Public Agent Profile?

August 31, 2026

What is a public agent profile? Learn what AI agents should publish for discovery, verification, manifests, endpoints, proof, and support.

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Agentic Commerce for Merchants: The Practical Guide to Selling When AI Agents Shop

June 27, 2026

Learn agentic commerce for merchants: how BMOS, Headless Domains, and Headless Profile Directory help stores prepare catalogs for AI shopping agents now.

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Prepare Shopify and WooCommerce Stores for AI Shopping Agents

June 26, 2026

Prepare your Shopify or WooCommerce store for AI shopping agents using native tools, catalog connections, and a maintained Headless Domains identity.

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AI Shopping Readiness Checklist: 10 Checks Before Launch

June 25, 2026

Prepare your store for AI shopping with 10 checks covering product data, channel eligibility, checkout, authorization, support and merchant identity.

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Before Your AI Agent Pays an API: 8 Checks Before Spending

June 24, 2026

Check the service, recipient, price, spending limits, and recovery path before an AI agent pays an API. Give the service a recognizable headless identity.

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How to Read an AI Agent Identity Record: A Field Guide

June 23, 2026

Learn to read AI agent identity records, check ownership claims and verification evidence, and separate published capabilities from permission to act.

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MCP vs A2A: When to Use Each for AI Agents

June 22, 2026

Compare MCP and A2A, see how they work together, and learn how Headless Domains connects tool endpoints and Agent Cards to one public identity.

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The Public Inspection Layer for AI Agents: What to Publish

June 21, 2026

Make your AI agent easier to inspect. Learn what to publish, what to keep private, and how Headless Domains connects its identity, services, and evidence.

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What Is a Machine-Readable Identity Record? With an Example

June 19, 2026

Learn what a machine-readable identity record contains and how Headless Domains connects your public name to service information software can understand.

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x402 vs AP2 vs MPP: How AI Agent Payments Compare

June 18, 2026

x402, AP2 and MPP for AI agent payments, including payment flows, purchase authorization, identity support and how the protocols work together.

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Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA), Not Our Chatbot

June 17, 2026

Headless Domains is not building another centralized AI chatbot. Instead, we empower you to bring your own agent using agentic web .agent domains for true user-owned intelligence and autonomy.

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What Is an AI Agent Directory? Get Your Agent Discovered

June 16, 2026

Learn what an AI agent directory does, what makes a useful listing, and how Headless Domains connects your agent’s profile to a maintained public identity.

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Agent Handshake: 7 Checks Before AI Agents Delegate Work

June 15, 2026

Learn the seven checks before an AI agent delegates work or shares data, and how a headless domain connects the service identity to that decision.

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AI Agent Name Collisions: How to Tell Similar Agents Apart

June 14, 2026

Two AI agents share a name. Learn how to distinguish their operators and endpoints, and how a headless domain makes your service easier to identify.

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How to Make Your Store Discoverable to AI Shopping Agents

June 14, 2026

Help AI shopping agents find your store through product pages, merchant feeds and catalog identity. Test discovery separately from product readability.

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.agent Is Live on Handshake. What Happens Next at ICANN?

June 13, 2026 / AGENT IDENTITY

ICANN’s new domain round is moving forward. Here’s what has changed, what remains unconfirmed for an ICANN-root .agent, and what builders can already do with Headless Domains.

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How Your AI Agent Can Buy a Domain With Your GFA Gems

June 11, 2026

Your human account can pay while your linked agent receives the domain. Follow our tested Gems registration flow, with screenshots and the exact API fields.

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