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TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles

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X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles

www.theverge.com

akosgheri ( akosgheri@beehaw.org ) to

TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

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X is launching a Handle Marketplace where Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable.

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Selling inactive handles? That almost sounds like DNS. You know, what Bluesky uses for usernames.
- Norah (pup/it/she) ( princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone )
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