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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
> ensure you get the ones you want

Also to try to avoid having to special-case any logic in terraform etc.

Say you're working on a family of sites for tradespeople like plumber.io, electrician.io, carpenter.io, etc. A fair number of people from India have "occupational surnames" like Miller, Contractor, Builder, Sheriff, etc. Suddenly one Mr. Dev Contractor registers a bucket "contractor-dev" and you have to special-case your bucket names in your terraform.

>>philsn+oQ
Yanks too. What do you think Smith, Miller, Farmer, etc. are?