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Handles Club @handles.club · 19/09/2025

Welcome @allison.on.computer. Thank you @m3anwhilee.on.computer for leading the Handles Club welcoming committee.

A picture of 7 people sat around a table looking at the camera holding their drinks up, as if to say, "welcome to the club".

Handles Club @handles.club · 08/05/2025

And here's the monitoring showing nothing out of ordinary. @symm.social I think your theory about the domain being inactive is probably right, i.e: back when you hosted it, a Bluesky server cached the IP address for your server, and is still trying to resolve the handles via that (gone) server.

A screenshot of the monitoring dashboard for the handles.net verification server

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Handles Club @handles.club · 08/05/2025

Looking at the logs, I can see a request came from Bluesky at 14:18:40.783 UTC and was responded to within 1 second, the timeline lines up for this being Cameron's post. Every request received to `gemini.botsky.social` has received a 200 response.

A screenshot of log entries over the last 1 hour

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Handles Club @handles.club · 14/04/2025

it looks like visiting the `handle.invalid` profile "randomly" chooses an invalid handle to show: refresh a bunch and you'll see different profiles. I wonder if it's showing the profile of the last handle to fail to resolve rather than "randomly" choosing a user.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 10/04/2025

The "Hosting provider" is the default ("Bluesky Social"). You can log in using your full handle (e.g: `example.posts.art`) and your password. Let me know if you're still having issues! Usually any problem logging in us due to a forgotten password.

A screenshot of the Bluesky login page showing the configuration described.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 24/03/2025

the handles are mysterious and important (art by @miya.is.eepy.now) bsky.app/profile/hand...

A screenshot of handles.club showing the `is.severed.fyi` domain with the severed character

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Handles Club @handles.club · 23/03/2025

Are you severed, or an aspiring Macrodata Refiner? Personalize your Bluesky handle with is.severed.fyi or refines.fyi at handles.club.

An edited version of Mark Scout's Lumon badge showing an example `@mark.is.severed.fyi` handle in the name field.

An edited version of Helly R.'s Lumon badge showing an example `@helly.refines.fyi` handle in the name field.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 13/03/2025

woohoo! mastering DNS is the final step to becoming a true nerd. welcome to the club 🤓 side note, you can make it so that when someone types `katie.hipopener.com` into their browser they'll be redirected to your Bluesky profile: create a CNAME record pointing `katie` to `redirect.bsky.app` :)

A mock up of the Dreamhost control panel showing an additional CNAME record for `katie` pointing to `redirect.bsky.app`

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Handles Club @handles.club · 11/03/2025

I'm right there with you

an image split in 2. on the left, a real world example of a tandem toilet. on the right, a computer generated tandem toilet with 2 human figure models demonstrating how the toilet would be used

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Handles Club @handles.club · 10/03/2025

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) ✨

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!"

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Handles Club @handles.club · 22/02/2025

The IP address that `kylecreate.dev` is pointing to doesn't appear to be correct. Via Porkbun, create an `A` record pointing to `75.2.60.5` and then Netlify should be able to issue a certificate for your domain.

A screenshot of Porkbun's DNS control panel showing the new record form with details filled out.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 22/02/2025

Sure! What's your domain name? You can use bsky-debug.app to check the configuration. If you're using Porkbun, you'll just create a new `TXT` record with `_atproto` as the Host and `did=did:plc:uzun6izyq4riig5u4szrm55h` as the value.

A screenshot of the Porkbun DNS control panel showing the creation of a new TXT record for Bluesky verification.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 12/02/2025

The email is displayed as `info@helixhhs.org` but the actual email address is `Amanda.Achartz@helixhhs.org` at the bottom left :)

A screenshot of the helixhhs.org website showing the email address revealed when hovering over `info@helixhhs.org`

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Handles Club @handles.club · 07/02/2025

I consulted AI and it agreed with you so `is.camp` will be added! I'll let you know once it's live, should be about 10 minutes :)

A magic 8 ball answers "without a doubt" to the question "should is.camp be added to handles.club?"

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Handles Club @handles.club · 04/02/2025

it's super simple with wix! Following these instructions: support.wix.com/en/article/m... create a "TXT" record with a "Host name" of "_atproto" and a "Value" of "did=did:plc:7v42dw6v6vv35oilj4ioomvg" and that's it :) Happy to help you further if you run into any issues.

A screenshot of wix.com's help instructions with values added for the user.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 03/02/2025

I choose to believe selfcest means being the nicest person you can be to yourself. Very wholesome.

A screenshot of thefreedictionary.com showing words ending in "cest" with "nicest" highlighted.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 03/02/2025

Your domain's DNS is configured with Cargo Collective, you need to add the TXT record there. According to the documentation ( cargo2support.cargo.site/Cargo-Domain...) the configuration should look like the attached picture. Also you can use bsky-debug.app/handle?handl... to verify your config.

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Handles Club @handles.club · 03/02/2025

porkbun.com/checkout/ai

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Handles Club @handles.club · 02/02/2025

no problem! Just so you know, you can use the Bluesky handle feature to use your own domain if you prefer, i.e: you could be @aliciabrownauthor.com :) If you do want to be @aliciabrownauthor.com: via GoDaddy, go to DNS settings for you domain and do this (`did=did:plc:37sjo2x6qtojditrnynnvpuf`).

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Handles Club @handles.club · 31/01/2025

From the Squarespace dashboards, go to Domains then DNS then DNS Settings and add these records (replace the `...` with the personal TXT record that iCloud gives you). Let me know if you need any more guidance!

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Handles Club @handles.club · 29/01/2025

@pepperednuts.bsky.social the fix is ready: `starts.party` is working again :) you can set your handle to `pepperednuts.starts.party` whenever you're ready (the instructions are handles.club).

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Handles Club @handles.club · 27/01/2025

thank you for sharing our service! Your domain is very nice, .net is my favourite extension. (Just in case you didn't know, you can redirect `enkro.net` to your Bluesky profile using Bluesky's special `redirect.bsky.app` address -- just create an ALIAS DNS record like this in Porkbun :))

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Handles Club @handles.club · 24/01/2025

...then add a custom record of TXT type: put _atproto in the host field and did=did:plc:yq5owas6xnzdmsovb7mqj6pd in the value field. That's it! Then you just come back to Bluesky and go through the handle change process :) help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/art...

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Handles Club @handles.club · 22/01/2025

I should get around to adding more details to the website! Using your current handle as an example, the set up would be CNAME `*.willmakeyou.turn.gay` to `at.handles.net`. Bluesky is neat, it supports both DNS based handles and HTTP (which is the method our system uses).

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Handles Club @handles.club · 20/01/2025

it means your DNS configuration is wrong. Looking at Bluesky Debug (bsky-debug.app/handle?handl...) it shows your TXT record is missing the prefix. Via Namecheap, edit the value of the _atproto DNS record to start with did=. Easy mistake, DNS is annoying :)

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Handles Club @handles.club · 16/01/2025

unfortunately we're limited by Top Level Domains (TLDs) that exist (help.handles.net/en/articles/...) and as .crow doesn't exist, it wouldn't be possible to register something.crow. However, the TLD .fan does exist and nobody has registered "rat.fan" so you could be @rat.fan for $70 per year!

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Handles Club @handles.club · 15/01/2025

You have 2 records instead of 1. The first one is your old did and the second is the wrong format. Delete the first entry and then remove `did=` from the second. You can use the bsky debug app to verify your records: bsky-debug.app/handle?handl... ("multiple records found" is the current error).

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Handles Club @handles.club · 05/01/2025

Then from Bluesky, go to your account settings, click "Handle" then "I have my own domain" then enter "agates.uk" and click "Verify DNS Record".

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Handles Club @handles.club · 05/01/2025

The domain is registered with GoDaddy. Go to dcc.godaddy.com/control/dnsm... and click "Add New Record" then choose "TXT" in Type, type "_atproto" into Name and paste did:plc:cwllijj74ip4xgpffyg33rv2 into value and click save...

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Handles Club @handles.club · 01/12/2024

probably a few thousand dollars per year (I think I have spent around $500 on registrations so far but renewals are more expensive). Most of the registered handles are using a small number of domains, 35 do not have any handles yet: I'll renew the used domains but let unused domains expire.

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