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>>aendru+(OP)
For those not getting the context(like me), this seems to be about the Bluesky Social(https://bsky.app/), a twitter alternative.

>>sidmit+72
Further context: Bluesky lets you use a domain name you own as a user handle.

The official method is to set a TXT record, but apparently their "AT protocol" also lets you confirm a domain by serving `GET your.domainname.com/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle`

and `xrpc` was available as an S3 bucket name :)

>>pyentr+d7
Stunning that there are (were) any 4-char bucket names left.

>>mwint+s9
I guess I'm not too surprised in that, unlike domain names, these aren't obviously exposed to end users, so terseness doesn't particularly matter. Verbose and descriptive is honestly better for most names.

>>CydeWe+Qj
And given that bucket names are a giant shared namespace, there's absolutely an incentive toward lots of prefixing to help ensure you get the ones you want.

>>mikepu+Gr
A while back I made one with a name like "postgresbackups" and was floored to realise later it was a global name.

>>techni+S41
To this day I don't know why it's a global name. For R2 we looked at this, saw the massive annoyance picking bucket names, and made it scoped to your account. CNAME records are orthogonal and can be set up to point to your bucket with a few button clicks.