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🚀 GoDaddy ANS API Now Live — Bringing Verifiable Identity to the Agent Ecosystem
We just launched the Agent Name Service (ANS) API) publicly, along with the new ANS Standards site, extending decades of GoDaddy internet-scale trust into the emerging world of autonomous agents. ANS provides cryptographically verifiable identity, human-readable names, and policy metadata for agents — designed to work across frameworks like A2A, MCP, and future agent protocols.
What’s new:
🔹ANS API is open to all developers — generate a GoDaddy API key and start testing registration, discovery, and lifecycle ops.
🔹ANS Standards Site is live — includes the latest spec, architecture, and implementation guidance.
🔹Protocol-agnostic adapter layer — supports interoperability without vendor lock-in.
Why it matters:
As autonomous agents continue to proliferate, we need neutral, verifiable identity to prevent spoofing, trust rot, and fragmented ecosystems. ANS brings DNS-like discovery and PKI-based validation to the agent economy.
🔗 Links
Standards & docs: https://www.agentnameregistry.org/
API keys: https://developer.godaddy.com/keys
Repo: https://github.com/godaddy/ans-registry
PR: https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/news-releases/press-release-details/2025/GoDaddy-advances-trusted-AI-agent-identity-with-ANS-API-and-Standards-site/default.aspx
Would love to hear thoughts from the community:
What should a universal agent identity layer guarantee — and what should it avoid?
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11 days ago
Building Smarter AI Agents: A Tool-Based Architecture for Modularity and Trust
Over the past year, our AI engineering team at GoDaddy has been rethinking how to make agent systems more modular, transparent, and production-ready. Instead of viewing an AI agent as a monolithic process, we’ve decomposed it into four core tools that separate decision-making from execution — a design that’s proving critical for scale and observability:
🧩 MemoryTool – maintains persistent context and user continuity
✅ CompletionTool – determines when a task is truly complete
💬 UserInteractionTool – manages clarifications, approvals, and confirmations
🔁 DelegationTool – enables agents to hand off tasks to other agents or humans
This approach makes every step of an agent’s workflow explicit, testable, and auditable, allowing us to scale AI systems in production with higher confidence. We see this as a step toward a more open, composable agent ecosystem — one where frameworks can interoperate and agents can build trust through transparency and version control.
Read the full write-up here → Building AI Agents at GoDaddy – An Agent’s Toolkit https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/building-ai-agents-at-godaddy-an-agents-toolkit
We’d love to collaborate and exchange ideas with the community:
- How are you designing modular agent architectures?
- What design patterns or abstractions have helped you manage agent complexity?
Let’s build smarter, safer agents together.
#AI #Agents #Architecture #MachineLearning #OpenSource #AgentFrameworks #TrustInAI
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The Next Step in AI: Trust That Scales with Autonomy
The past few months have proven that autonomous agents are testing the web’s guardrails, from robots.txt to checkout flows, and trust is the casualty. At GoDaddy, we’re addressing this by supporting the Agent Name Service (ANS) open standard — a framework introducing a digital passport for autonomous agents. By binding each agent’s identity to its exact version of code, ANS creates verifiable trust even in multi-agent chains, reducing the risks of compromised code or “trust rot.”
This is more than a technical milestone. It’s the foundation for secure, scalable agent-to-agent commerce. This post follows our announcement from last month: ANS is now live, and we’re partnering with select companies to roll out implementations in the near future.
Exciting times ahead as we continue shaping the agent economy.
👉 Read more in Scott Courtney’s latest post: Why the Agent Economy Needs a Digital Passport https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/why-the-agent-economy-needs-a-digital-passport
💬 What do you think: could verifiable, version-bound identity be the missing piece for safe autonomous collaboration?
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