Jul 06, 2023 16:11:00

Twitter SNS 'Bluesky', a candidate for moving destination, started a domain sales service, you can easily prove your identity with your own domain

You can easily prove your identity by assigning your own domain to your handle name on the SNS '

Bluesky ', which can be used with a similar operation to Twitter. A new domain sales function has been added to Bluesky, allowing people who do not have a domain to quickly purchase a domain and prove their identity.

Purchase and Manage Domains Directly Through Bluesky - Bluesky
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap

A handle name in the form of '@○○.bsky.social' is assigned when a new user of Bluesky is registered, but it can be changed later to a handle name associated with the domain owned by the user. For example, the handle name of GIGAZINE's official Bluesky account is '@gigazine.net', and including 'gigazine.net' in the handle name proves that it is a genuine account. The feature to include the domain in the handle name is free and can be easily set up by the owner of the domain. The detailed setting procedure is explained in the following article.

How to authenticate yourself with 'Bluesky', unlike Twitter, free & all possible by yourself - GIGAZINE

However, there are many people who say, 'I want to prove my account is real, but I don't have a domain.' For such users, Bluesky has partnered with a major domain sales company 'Namecheap' to launch a service to sell domains such as '○○.com' and '○○.social'. You can access the Bluesky domain sales page from the link below.

Account - Bluesky Social
https://account.bsky.app/

When you access the domain sales page, you will be asked to sign in with your Bluesky account, so enter your user name and password and click 'Sign in'.

When the following screen is displayed, enter the ○○ part of '○○.com' that you want to purchase in the input field at the top of the screen.

Then, domains such as '○○.social', '○○.com', '○○.net' are displayed as follows. Domains that are available for purchase will have an orange 'Register' button, so click that.

After clicking the 'Register' button, the payment screen will be displayed. If you enter the necessary information here, you can purchase your favorite domain. Of course, after purchasing a domain with Bluesky, you can transfer it to another domain provider.

In addition, Bluesky is promoting the construction of a profit system for service continuation, and the domain sales service that started this time is positioned as 'Bluesky's first paid service'. In addition, Bluesky has succeeded in raising $ 8 million (about 1.15 billion yen) in funding, and says that it will continue to build a business model.