How I read it, they want to use a domain to validate the use of a handle. With the huge variety of tlds the same domain part could be registered many many times.
If I did misunderstand, then sorry. It’s how I read it.
Using a domain for your handle means it entirely replaces the original bsky handle you signed up with.
I could go from being mentaledge.bsky.social to mentaledge.com, for example. (And they don’t need to be the same “username” so to speak, I could have registered therealmental.bsky.social, but then become mentaledge.com, provided I own the domain.)
The main difference is that the orignal handle is a subdomain of bsky, while you can be the root domain if you use your own.
Before, you’d lose your original handle, meaning someone else could grab it once you did this, and then pretend to be you. Now they can’t.
I don’t think the name part of the bsky handle comes from the domain you use.
You just no longer lose the handle you picked when you registered, when you switch to using your own domain as your handle.
Before, once you switched, someone else could grab that original handle you registered with and pretend to be you.
How I read it, they want to use a domain to validate the use of a handle. With the huge variety of tlds the same domain part could be registered many many times.
If I did misunderstand, then sorry. It’s how I read it.
Using a domain for your handle means it entirely replaces the original bsky handle you signed up with.
I could go from being
mentaledge.bsky.socialtomentaledge.com, for example. (And they don’t need to be the same “username” so to speak, I could have registeredtherealmental.bsky.social, but then becomementaledge.com, provided I own the domain.)The main difference is that the orignal handle is a subdomain of bsky, while you can be the root domain if you use your own.
Before, you’d lose your original handle, meaning someone else could grab it once you did this, and then pretend to be you. Now they can’t.
Aha OK. Then yeah I misread it. That makes a lot more sense.