Cloudflare + GoDaddy Just Partnered on Agent Identity — Here Is Why It Matters

The web is being rebuilt for AI agents, and this week two internet infrastructure giants just made that official. The Partnership Cloudflare and GoDaddy announced a strategic partnership (Apr 17) to manage AI crawlers and, more importantly, agent identity. The key insight: when an agent makes a request — whether for data or an autonomous purchase — its identity should be cryptographically signed. This is not a theoretical standard. Cloudflare handles ~20% of global web traffic. GoDaddy manages 8