--- title: Introducing ANS: DNS-Inspired Secure Discovery for AI Agents description: OWASP has introduced the Agent Name Service (ANS), a DNS-inspired protocol for secure AI agent discovery. ANS addresses limitations of traditional DNS by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ans-dns-inspired-secure-discovery-for-ai-agents-zzztpljtc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing ANS: DNS-Inspired Secure Discovery for AI Agents | daily.dev og:description: OWASP has introduced the Agent Name Service (ANS), a DNS-inspired protocol for secure AI agent discovery. ANS addresses limitations of traditional DNS by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-ans-dns-inspired-secure-discovery-for-ai-agents-zzztpljtc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zzzTPLjTc.png og:image:alt: Introducing ANS: DNS-Inspired Secure Discovery for AI Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing ANS: DNS-Inspired Secure Discovery for AI Agents **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OWASP has introduced the Agent Name Service (ANS), a DNS-inspired protocol for secure AI agent discovery. ANS addresses limitations of traditional DNS by providing semantic understanding, identity verification through PKI, and support for emerging agent communication protocols like Google's Agent2Agent and Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. The system uses structured naming conventions and cryptographic verification to enable secure agent-to-agent discovery and communication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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