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ask 👏🏻 websites 👏🏻 to set 👏🏻 their handle 👏🏻 before 👏🏻 verifying

@aaron.bsky.team how do y'all approach verification approvals and domain handles? I personally consider it an anti-pattern to verify accounts who own a domain that obviously should be their handle.

That is a long headache that gets complicated based on the org and IT structure. Surprisingly difficult with some governments. In the case above I would strongly prefer that they use their domain but have given up having that fight endlessly and my moderation team trying to do tech support.

I think if it wasn’t a novel mechanism we’d have more uptake and less confusion. Emily wrote guides but it ended up being largely tech support work. I can’t train a moderator on policies and domain configuration easily so gave up on that as a requirement. Entirely capacity driven.

That's fair. I've wondered about an in-app nudge for accounts that have a single website in their bio. That's likely to be their website, and we could poke them to say "hey, looks like you've got a website, wanna set that as your handle?"

Part of the answer also being more partnerships with more registrars to replicate @marque.at's one-click UX. Get GoDaddy, Squarespace, Namecheap, Porkbun, et al to support easy handle config.

I’ve tried nudging small biz I know to use their domains for handles. To no avail. I’m guessing they may be daunted by the coding or backend work required.