Businesses.Direct/Businesses.1
Providing Fixed, verifiable AI Agent identities helping to Provide Safe-AI For Interaction of Businesses AI Agents•
These .1 AI Endpoints are Handshake Domains that provide Fixed Identities in a way other Web3 Domains cannot
Industry Sector Safe AI .1 Endpoints For Safe AI
Featuring Exhibitors from The Business Show London, the world’s largest business event for SMEs and startups.
The mission of the Business Show is to empower business owners, founders, entrepreneurs, and startups with the knowledge, connections, and solutions they need to grow and scale successfully.
Businesses.Direct is not affiliated with the Businesses Show. However, it is part of an IBM Partner Programme that can help take business to the next level in the AI Era by providing Fixed Identities for AI Agents, offering hundreds of categories of Fixed Identities across 29 major industry sectors. It also provides Identities for AI Agents relating to over 300 Geographic areas across the globe, providing a Framework for Safe AI, which starts with the provision of Fixed Identities for AI Agents. See Available Fixed Identities for AI Agents HERE
Businesses.Direct is an AI Endpoint for Discovery
AI Agents are becoming primary users of digital infrastructure. Unlike humans, they do not need to browse pages or interpret visual design. They need to resolve identities, discover authoritative machine interfaces, understand declared capabilities and invoke services programmatically. They use AI Endpoints for this. Businesses.Direct is such an AI Endpoint.
AI2AI.Business will be positioned as the commercial transaction and interoperability layer of the Businesses.Direct/Businesses.1 ecosystem. This will help connect persistent AI identities to practical services, business opportunities and measurable transactions.
Why a .1 domain can provide a fixed AI Agent identity
A memorable .1 identity on the Handshake Blockchain is a valuable asset that can act as a stable, fixed, recognisable reference for an AI Agent, rather than simply the current address of the software running it.
Featured Sectors and Features of Handshake domains
Most Web3 naming systems (like ENS on Ethereum) operate as second-level domains on top of smart contracts rather than acting as native internet top-level domains. Handshake has a fundamentally different architecture as detailed below.
Second-Level Status: Most Web3 Operating extensions like .eth or .crypto sit on top of a blockchain as smart contract records.
Root Level Delegation: Handshake Domains can act as an authoritative root server in a way other Web3 Domains cannot. Other web3 Domains cannot natively delegate standard DNS record types, to traditional internet name servers
Root Zone (TLD Level): Handshake replaces the root DNS file (.) maintained by ICANN/IANA.
A Handshake Domain is an actual Top-Level Domain.
In Summary: Where standard Web3 domains act as identity records stored in EVM smart contracts, Handshake operates a decentralized, peer-to-peer replacement for the ICANN Root Zone file. This gives Handshake domains true root-level authority in the domain hierarchy.
Business Show Exhibitors
All Exhibitors at the Business Show, are invited to a free online workshop to find out more about how Fixed Identities for their AI Agents can help the participate in a safe AI Programme, as well as discover and be discovered by other AI Agents, and Interact across the Interaction platform being integrated in the Businesses.Direct Platform
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