AI agents keep multiplying. Yet they struggle to locate each other without custom lists or fragile links. The Linux Foundation now offers a fix drawn from infrastructure that has worked since the 1980s. On May 27, 2026, the organization announced the DNS-AID project . The effort, first shaped inside Infoblox, turns the Domain Name System into a shared directory for autonomous software. No fresh databases. No single company in control. Just DNS records that agents query the same way browsers resolve names. Current setups leave much to be desired. Developers hard-code endpoints. They maintain private catalogs. Or they accept walled gardens run by big platforms. Those choices create friction. They raise costs. They limit what agents can achieve when they need to cooperate across organizations. DNS already knows how to scale discovery. Think about email. Servers publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC records in DNS so recipients can verify senders without asking anyone first.…