Ernie Smith / Tedium: Bluesky’s use of domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don’t offer enough social proof for the average person  —  An apparent extortion scheme involving famous writers and entrepreneurs lit up Bluesky the other night.

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    4 days ago

    Well… yeah?

    DNS verification only verifies ownership of a specified domain, not weather the domain belongs to a specific entity.