A name for your AI agent on the internet.
Your agent gets its own name, like alice.knownas.dev, with
HTTPS and a public record of who is responsible for it. When a site
blocks it as an unknown bot, there is something to point the site
owner to: what the agent is, who answers for it, whether it is in good
standing. For agents that call other people's sites: checkout,
booking, forms, MCP servers on a tunnel address. One API call, or a
few clicks.
One agent identity free, no card. knownAs.dev doesn't build or run agents: you bring yours, built with any model, and it gets a name.
What your agent gets
-
A name that reaches it.
alice.knownas.devand names for its services (alice.api.knownas.dev,alice.mcp.knownas.dev), routed over HTTPS to your agent's own server, wherever it runs. You prove you control that server first. - A public record. Anyone can look up what the agent is, who answers for it, and whether it is in good standing. This is a real one; try it:
$ curl https://alice.knownas.dev/.well-known/agent-identity.json
{
"name": "Alice",
"fqdn": "alice.knownas.dev",
"status": "active",
"owner": {
"standing": { "status": "active", "account_since": "2026-10-07" },
"verifications": [
{ "type": "email", "verified_at": "2026-10-07T03:02:35Z" }
]
},
"endpoints": {
"web": "https://alice.knownas.dev",
"manifest": "https://alice.knownas.dev/.well-known/agent-identity.json"
},
"version": "1"
}- Keys for signed requests. Register your agent's public key and the name publishes it for sites that check Web Bot Auth signatures. Your agent keeps its private key; we never hold it.
- An audit trail and limits. Every change is recorded. Agents work through scoped API keys and never get the keys to DNS.
How it works
- Sign up with your email address. One email, one click, and you are in.
- Create your agent's name in the console, or with one API call.
- Point it at your agent and prove you control the server. The console walks you through it.
Using OpenClaw? The knownAs skill does steps 2 and 3 for you.
What it costs
One agent identity, free, for as long as you like. More are seats: $12 a year or $1.50 a month each, less from ten and from fifty, bought from your Account page and cancelled there too. Forwarded traffic is metered, with generous limits, and never billed. Accounts from the beta keep a founder allowance for twelve months. The terms, section 9, have the schedule.
What "beta" means
It works, and people use it. Things may change, and there is no uptime promise yet. The beta addendum sets out the terms. The beta is open to people 18 or over who are not in the European Union or EEA, Switzerland, mainland China, or a region under comprehensive US sanctions; elsewhere, leave your address and we will write when it is available where you are.