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Both domain and non-domain, or 3rd party, based verifiers have a trust relationship, which can be undermined by breaking the expectations. Musk Social certainly did this when they made it pay-to-play and removed the blue check on well known accounts the overlord became displeased with.

ATProto specifically advises against shortening domains into some "human readable" format. For example, @foo.bar.com and @foo.baz.com could easily look the same. The full path is unique. What Bluesky provides is a "display name" in addition to your handle. Multiple people can have the same display name, but it always appears next to the full handle

https://atproto.com/specs/handle#usage-and-implementation-gu...