Atom has adopted RFC 10023, the new DNS standard for signaling that a registered domain is for sale. AI agents and domain tools can now see that an eligible Atom listing is for sale, and where to buy it, straight from DNS. No scraping landers. No setup for sellers. Rolling out now: atom.com/blog/atom-adopts-rf…

AI can clone your product in a weekend. Design around your patents in hours. Turn your engineers, designers, and managers into commodities. It cannot steal the exact name people already type, remember, and trust. Your domain is not a URL. It is the last scarce brand asset left. A trademark protects one mark in one class. Your exact-match .com is the name they type in every class. Everything else just became a commodity. Brand = Domain Name = The Last Moat

Earlier this year we launched Atom's MCP server so AI agents could search, appraise, and check domains on Atom. One step was still missing: paying for one. Today that's closed. Atom is one of the first domain platforms live on @stripe and @tempo's Machine Payments Protocol. An agent gets a price, receives a 402, pays, and the domain lands in its user's account. No checkout page, no human in the loop. Registrations and premium marketplace domains, live today. atom.com/blog/atom-com-is-no…

I'm a skeptic of GPU indices and compute futures. We haven't seen digital infra trade like a commodity yet, and I'd hate to see these go the way of bandwidth futures in the 90s. The indices are meaningfully off of actual clearing prices because hyperscaler and lab purchases are highly confidential deal terms. Fungibility is great in theory not in practice. Any hedge fund / scale user knows the value of a cluster has too many dimensions to reach fungibility from cluster to cluster: specific fiber paths, shell, geo, BOM, the 10 different operators in the supply chain, and a thousand+ more variables. If it works, we'll surely use it but until then we're building something else

The AI riptide is already underway