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A comment on Twitter (X) is going to take my username sports, any ideas how I might keep it?.

Re:Twitter (X) is going to take my username sports, any idea... by ryan29 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:07PM (#36993776)
This is the reason we need domains as handles to become the expectation. I don't want an ephemeral handle that Twitter, etc. own. I want a permanent domain that I own.

And I know domains aren't technically permanent, but they're far less risk than ephemeral handles because you actually have some rights as a registrant.

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Re:Twitter (X) is going to take my username sports, any idea... by JohnFen on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:36PM (#37002336)
> And I know domains aren't technically permanent

I agree.

They're not technically permanent, but my primary domain name is one that I've had for over 30 years now (even surviving two instances of me forgetting to renew it), and the youngest of my other ones is 10 years old.

They aren't technically permanent, but they're more persistent than a lot of things people uncontroversially think of as permanent.

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