Imagine being the first Bluesky account that's just like @walmart (yes they own a root) - ThreadSky

swiftonsecurity.com • 93 days ago

Imagine being the first Bluesky account that's just like @walmart (yes they own a root)

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comptona.bsky.social•93 days ago

This is the first skeet that I've wished I could use a Facebook reaction to instead of just a heart

gwollman.bsky.social•93 days ago

No, that's not a root, that's a top-level domain, which is one below the root. The root is "" (usually symbolized as "." but technically that's the separator and not part of the label itself).

swiftonsecurity.com•93 days ago

Okay yes I'm a bit sloppy with terminology

swiftonsecurity.com•92 days ago

I can't say anything but possibilities are possibilitating

meson.ninja•92 days ago

_atproto.1/32.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa

maik.zumstrull.net•92 days ago

Calling it: ICANN about to announce .dril.

weftw1se.bsky.social•92 days ago

You should work on getting @drug.dealer as well.

iammudlet.bsky.social•93 days ago

Bugger.. I thought you said OWE

evelyn.fyi•93 days ago

Quick someone give me $140k, I have the worst idea ever

benpye.bsky.social•93 days ago

I’m hoping for @bbc

http://nic.bbc

enpaul.net•93 days ago

Unrelated, but why is the default handle domain https://bsky.social and not https://blue.sky?

happieplant.nl•93 days ago

Just realised .sky is also a brand tld from Sky in the UK

henkery.bsky.social•93 days ago

I mean I suppose any government could do this

toast.bunkerlabs.net•92 days ago

you could be @lidl …

advaith.bsky.social•93 days ago

would be fun, but the code requires handles to have a dot

bajiri.bsky.social•93 days ago

I really though this was a joke, but it’s totally legit 😭

They have grocery and Walmart https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/viewstatus

numb.comfortab.ly•93 days ago

jfc .walmart is a tld

tired.moe•93 days ago

There's a bunch of TLDs u would not expect to exist https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD

For example
.aws, .amazon .google, .apple, .netflix and many others

yaseppochi.bsky.social•93 days ago

$140k seems like a lot to pay to shed three characters. I got my .jp for ¥1.

gracekind.net•93 days ago

nooo

georgekong.com•93 days ago

.george is a walmart tld

how do i start a https://change.org?

kaitlingrady.bsky.social•92 days ago

@costcoofficial.bsky.social did this

nwunder.com•93 days ago

pretty sure gTLDs can't have DNS records per ICANN rules. they definitely can't have A records, not sure about TXT though. if they can, we could also have @google and @amazon

iotku.pw•93 days ago

You know AWS is going to do it just to be extra

okms.me•92 days ago

Microsoft has the microsoft TLD

27needles.online•93 days ago

CTO of Bank of America could be @bofa

hsblhsn.me•93 days ago

Apple and Google are my best bet.

clast.bsky.social•92 days ago

You mean they own a URL?

ngerakines.me•93 days ago

Yeah, seeing @mattel would be neat.

ball.moe•93 days ago

Might not be possible as icann might be a meanie about it :( (unless you're a country)

emi.ly•93 days ago

But the verification happens from the _atproto.tld subdomain, so from the DNS / ICANN point of view, it's arguably not a dotless domain l.

ball.moe•93 days ago

Actually fair point 🤔

chasej.xyz•93 days ago

next time i meet w/walmart i will ask them why https://walmart.walmart is not their homepage, or at least use something silly like https://buy.walmart or https://shop.walmart !!!

spencersolberg.com•93 days ago

The only time I’ve seen one of these big brand TLDs used in the wild is https://applecard.apple (which just redirects to https://apple.com anyway 🤷‍♂️)