A picture drawn by @miya.is.eepy.now of the handles octopus dressed as various handles (artist octopus, octopus and cat, hippy octopus) sharing a cake under the banner "5000 registered handles!"

handles.club has reached 5,000 registered handles! Thank you all for making Bluesky a little cuter with your personalized handles (and thank you to @miya.is.eepy.now for this celebratory illustration) ✨

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Sorry about that! Our authentication is handled by clerk.com and I think they had a short outage: status.clerk.com/incident/508... Could you please try signing in again? Thank you for your patience!

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There's some great other options like aviary.domains which take a different approach. I look forward to seeing what you come up with :)

such a killer product domain also

This looks amazing, wish I would've known about it a few weeks ago; honestly, I can't express how smart this concept is, it's loaded with enterprise-focused features and the pricing is incredible.

Fellow news industry product people, pay attention to this one...

This looks seriously cool

thank you, good catch! I've fixed that and also added the "Add new domain" button to the dashboard for small screens :)

GitHub - prompt/handles-server: Bluesky handle verification requests server. Bluesky handle verification requests server. Contribute to prompt/handles-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yes, we used the same method! The server itself is open source (github.com/prompt/handl...). At a high level: `at.handles.net` is an instance of handles-server which uses the handles.net database to validate handles through the postgres provider.

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there's no upper limit, although the interface might need some tweaks to be able to display millions of handles! The system powers handles.club which has over 3,500 registered handles so far :)

Sorry about that! You can click the 3 lines icon at the top right. I'm working on some improvements now to make it easier! :) Here's some screenshots:
bsky.app/profile/hand...

A screenshot of the handles.net website on a small screen with an arrow pointing to the menu icon.

A screenshot of the handles.net website on a small screen with an arrow pointing to the "Add Domain" item.

Sorry about that, the mobile interface needs work, I'll make some changes to improve the experience (as the tour was designed for desktop). You can click on the menu at the top right to navigate to the add domain page. You can also click the blue @ at the bottom right to talk to me directly :)

Great news! Fortinet and CRDF have both removed the domain from their lists: once your software updates, you should be able to access the site. Thank you (and @thesmilinglemon.bsky.social) for flagging the issue, very much appreciated :)

Thank you very much! I've tracked down the source of the issue and submitted a request for the website to be reevaluated. I'll let you know once I have confirmation that it has been unblocked :)

Apologies! The domain name is over 25 years old so it is possible it was used for nefarious things prior to my ownership. What anti-virus software do you both use @thesmilinglemon.bsky.social? I will investigate getting the domain name re-evaluated by the software you're both using. Thanks!

A block list is a great idea, too. Thank you. I'll make a note about that. Do you have any specific names in mind that you would like to block? I think opt-in lists could be helpful (e.g: a list of common impersonation names, a list of offensive names) alongside the option to block individual names.

Thank you fellow .net appreciator, it is the most underrated TLD. I tried to negotiate the price down but I loved it too much and so within a few hours I negotiated myself into paying the list price (of $1,500).

GitHub - prompt/handles-server: Bluesky handle verification requests server. Bluesky handle verification requests server. Contribute to prompt/handles-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

@nick.scialli.me is exactly right! Just a single DNS record using wildcard DNS. The server is open source in case you'd like to run your own or see under the hood: github.com/prompt/handl... :)

the pricing is mostly just a guess about what might be reasonable pricing, there's no feature restrictions at the moment: you're welcome to any features (including email based handles) for free forever if they'd be useful to you :)

thank you very much for the feedback! I will update the navigation item, and also add a separate link to the sign-up page (for open or apply domains) so that the flow is clearer. I'll let you know once that change is live!

handles.net | Bluesky Handle Management Create and manage Bluesky Handles at your domain without configuring DNS for every handle.

Managing DNS records is a headache: create and manage thousands of handles with a single DNS record using handles.net.

very interesting! we're currently advertising via reddit and google ads, being able to put that money into the bluesky ecosystem instead would be great :)

GitHub - prompt/avatars.dog: Fetch Bluesky avatars with a single URL. Fetch Bluesky avatars with a single URL. Contribute to prompt/avatars.dog development by creating an account on GitHub.

Did you find a method that can be used with just a URL -- no API lookup? I built avatars.dog which uses the API but I dream of a simpler implementation.

Preparing to launch handles.net.