+1 to this. having tld in our handles is silly and counter-intuitive I am notplants.bsky.social still simply because i dont want to be myname.com unless im doing it as a bit. a tld in your handle lowkey feels like being named after a billboard
Sam Goto
A discussion I had with @pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net and @dholms.at at the conference that I wanted to dig as a community is a TLD for atproto handles. Lots of challenges, but I think I'm looking forward to a world where I'm @goto (syntactic sugar for goto.handle) on the web rather than @sgo.to
Apr 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Bluesky handles (Verified accounts)
A catalog of Bluesky handles grouped by generic or country TLDs
Use your own domain as a W social handle
W social removes the handle feature from its web frontend. Using the AT Proto API, you can still set your own domain as a handle. A guide in four steps.
swifties.social - get your community handle for Bluesky
get your own swifties.social handle
Bluesky handle directory
A catalog of Bluesky handles grouped by generic or country TLDs
etheirys.social - get your community handle for Bluesky
get your own etheirys.social handle
handles.net | Bluesky Handle Management
Create and manage Bluesky Handles at your domain without configuring DNS for every handle.
btw, these new domain endings should be of much greater interest to the @bsky.app (atproto) community than your average internet jane/joe because of the incoming flood of expressive @handle.tld options
Pete Millspaugh
ICANN's gTLD application window closed last night and bigger-than-2012 (last round) stuff is already happening lfg.link applied for 316, more than anyone in 2012 (it'll cost $71 million in application fees alone!) some interesting strings in there...going to thread until I run out of steam
A discussion I had with @pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net and @dholms.at at the conference that I wanted to dig as a community is a TLD for atproto handles. Lots of challenges, but I think I'm looking forward to a world where I'm @goto (syntactic sugar for goto.handle) on the web rather than @sgo.to
@iheartnoise.bandcamp.com how did you set your bluesky handle to match your bandcamp domain? To my understanding, bandcamp manages dns on this end. Did not know you could adapt it for bsky
🚀 Excited to officially launch periwinkle.social to help folks truly own your social identity on @bsky.app and the growing universe of @atprotocol.dev applications. We manage your Personal Data Server and and handle the hard parts so you don't have to. #ATProtocol #PDS
Periwinkle - Get Started
periwinkle.socialcome doodle @ signs tldraw.com/f/UD53fpnZ9_0Ix73l3MCWE?d=v-9…
tldraw
www.tldraw.com
celine
Inspired by @joebasser.com to mess around with some AT Proto logos too... Do any of these speak to you?!
A thing I really like about this @eliothiggins.bsky.social @drnataliemartin.bsky.social framework is that instead of looking only at surface information disorder they're like THE PROBLEM IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE STATE demos.co.uk/research/verification-deliber…
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
demos.co.ukOkay, who's going to write a response to this... @eikofried.bsky.social @ajshackman.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social @nicolecrust.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41398-026-03943-5
mastodon.social is being DDoS right now. That's bad. It was bad when Bluesky was DDoSed. It's bad when open social platforms are attacked. status.mastodon.social
mastodon.social - Status
status.mastodon.socialThe conversation in this 🧵 between @anna.germnetwork.com, @sgo.to, + @bnewbold.net has me hopping in my chair with excitement Can we finally implement the full potential of the @-ness of handles vs. sites?
bryan newbold
my response to anna's original idea is that handles are already domains, and there should be cool sites there. eg, if you put dril.bsky.social in a browser bar today, you get redirected to bsky.app/profile/dril.bsky.social instead, dril.bsky.social could be a webpage, like linktree (blento is a link app)
