2nd December 2024 - Link Blog
NYTimes reporters getting verified profiles on Bluesky. NYT data journalist Dylan Freedman has kicked off an initiative to get NYT accounts and reporters on Bluesky verified via vanity nytimes.com handles - Dylan is now @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com.
They're using Bluesky's support for TXT domain records. If you use Google's Dig tool to look at the TXT record for _atproto.dylanfreedman.nytimes.com you'll see this:
_atproto.dylanfreedman.nytimes.com. 500 IN TXT "did=did:plc:zeqq4z7aybrqg6go6vx6lzwt"
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