domains Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky social

[Lox]

Here’s why we’ve designed the AT protocol to let you join a social network with a custom domain and prioritized it as a feature in Bluesky:

• You can tell which accounts are authentic based on the websites they’re associated with. Custom domain handles are a decentralized way for us to achieve a level of account verification. Curious if “@potus.bsky.social” is actually the president of the US? Once this feature fully lands, you should assume the actual president of the US would have an official domain handle like “@potus.whitehouse.gov”.
• You can use the same handle to identify you across social media services. I own jaygraber.com, so if I set my handle to @jaygraber.com on Bluesky, I can tell my friends to find me at this stable handle across any AT Protocol social site that supports custom domains.
• You can keep a custom domain handle when you switch services. If you’re currently using the bsky.social service we’re running, but you decide you don’t like our policies and want to switch to another, you’ll be able to keep the same domain handle.

Custom domain handles are a way for us to improve the state of trust and control users have over their social identities online. It builds off the existing infrastructure of DNS, the naming system for websites.


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[MadAboutDomains]

The potus could have @Potato as his handle.

 

[pb]

Nice, now I only need to own pb.com and I'm all set.

 

[Sam78]

This is a card-carrying member of awesome. Already seeing wtf/lol/xyz on there in usernames.

 

[Grego85]

maybe this will help "cool" domains sell more, you know the ones we all reg because they seem cool more than they have some great business use.

 

[Sam78]

1000% a use case for .horse