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There's a whole lot of conversation still to be had about proving identity, but just want to call out that this option is available right now (and super cool to see!) The only way Dylan could get a nytimes-dot-com handle like this is if nytimes set it up!

The fact that so many people have a problem with DNS as proof of ownership really shows how many people's brains have been utterly cooked by corporate social media. If no one knows who you are and you don't have a website, respectfully, maybe you don't need to be "verified".

Lots of journalists don't *need* to have their own domain, because they work for a publisher. But If they e.g. say something pro-Palestine and get fired, their handle is lost. @bsky.app has dropped the ball a bit by not letting you keep your bsky.social handle when you switch to authing with DNS.

We can argue "Users should know to make a back-up account to squat on myname@bsky.social/have their own DNS just in case" but the whole reason this place is more popular than Mastodon is because non-tech people *don't* have to think about that kind of thing.