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Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by silisili »

klysm wrote: post #4

They better hurry up if they want to be relevant. Time to ship garbage!

Too late IMO. Twitter the incumbent, Threads just popped up out of nowhere with a whole heap of users.

People switch when other people switch, generally. Those tired of Twitter now have an easy place to call home, there's not going to be any momentum to then want to switch again.

Mastodon tried, and did get some following, but IMO is too complicated in concept for the common user. Bsky on the other hand just blew it.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by captn3m0 »

MarkMarine wrote: post #6

I’m not positive this is a winner for normie users. The exclusivity of a user name is important, I want @mark, not @mark.abcdef while I know there is an @mark.abcdęf out there.

That makes me curious if Bluesky does anything to prevent Homograph attacks.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by e63f67dd-065b »

I'm weary of tying my domain registrar to social media. One of the nice things about owning my domain is that I can control it -- if I get banned on bluesky, a much more likely occurrence than CloudFlare kicking me out, what's the policy of transferring out?

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Post by DigiEggz »

cryptoz wrote: post #5
latenightcoding wrote: post #2

I just want auto-renew to work properly sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, lost a couple of high value domain names even tho they've had my CC for years.

I once let my Hotmail account go 30 or 90 days without a login, so Microsoft followed their policy to delete my email and open the username to the public. Someone saw my email on dns records, found it was available, registered the email and stole my domain. Extremely bitter about that ~17 years later. Extremely.

That is mortifying and cruel. It's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't prevent registration of expired emails for a set period of time. They had to have an idea that this type of situation would occur. I'm tempted to ask what the domain was...

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Post by eyelidlessness »

MarkMarine wrote: post #6

I’m not positive this is a winner for normie users. The exclusivity of a user name is important, I want @mark, not @mark.abcdef while I know there is an @mark.abcdęf out there.

It might not be a thing for “normie” users, but the tech-overlapping crowd has been all about domain name based handles for quite a bit, and many are registering domains specifically because of it. This isn’t something they’re doing on a whim, they’re doing it in direct response to demand.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jquery »

afavour wrote: post #3

Looks great. But maybe the effort should be going towards scaling up so they can remove the invite only requirement, Threads is going to actively eat Bluesky’s lunch while it remains.

The lack of search / trending is really a bummer, I hope that is just a v1 launch choice and not long term product vision.

Otherwise I'm impressed with the launch and its sheer scale, very smooth.

Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by jrflowers »

e63f67dd-065b wrote: post #13

I'm weary of tying my domain registrar to social media. One of the nice things about owning my domain is that I can control it -- if I get banned on bluesky, a much more likely occurrence than CloudFlare kicking me out, what's the policy of transferring out?

You just put a txt record in your DNS to get a Bluesky username. They don’t have to manage your domain

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Re: Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

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Post by vermilingua »

e63f67dd-065b wrote: post #13

I'm weary of tying my domain registrar to social media. One of the nice things about owning my domain is that I can control it -- if I get banned on bluesky, a much more likely occurrence than CloudFlare kicking me out, what's the policy of transferring out?

Presumably you'd transfer your domain from Namecheap, not bluesky; there are extremely strict conditions on registrars around domain portability.
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