This guide was originally written by BadPups, one of our sponsors

On this page:

1. Examples from the community
2. Getting started
3. Custom handles we have available
4. How it works
5. FAQs (is my account safe? yes)
6. Instruction guide – how to set your custom handle yourself
7. Contact us (if you get stuck and need help)
8. More info and rules for custom handles

Examples from the community

Getting started

Pawsome Domains is offering the unique opportunity to grab yourself an exclusive custom username / handle for all BlueSky users, which are only available from us. It takes around 2 mins to get it all done and you can do it all yourself! We’re doing this as part of recognizing and valuing the members of the LGBTQ+, furry, pup and pet play (and similar) communities. You are special, so here’s your way to show it.

Wait: You need a BlueSky social media account for this to work for you.

Don’t have a BlueSky account? Sign up for free at: https://bsky.app. BlueSky is very similar in look, feel, and function to Twitter/X.

Note! Terms used on this page: Be aware that we use the term ‘username’ and ‘handle’ interchangeably. BlueSky refers to ‘usernames’ as ‘handles’, but both mean the same thing.

Custom usernames / handles we have available

We’ve got the following usernames / handle formats up for grabs:

• your username + woof.lgbt
• your username + paws.lgbt
• your username + furry.lgbt
• your username + pupplay.lgbt
• your username + pupplay.ing
• your username + pupplay.life
• your username + pupplay.club

Real life examples in use:

There’s a lot of people using custom usernames from us, but here’s the two real life examples we displayed above: @savanni.woof.lgbt and @EzrianaAnmut.woof.lgbt as well as a furry / pup one: @snudgley.furry.lgbt.

You can also see a public list of recently set Custom BlueSky @usernames here!

How it works

The way this works, is many people can use a custom handle format we offer as we use subdomains to give everyone their own custom handle.

In the above example for Rexxi, if Max and Spencer also wanted to have their profiles on the same custom handle they would all have something of the following:

• rexxi.paws.lgbt
• max.furry.lgbt
• pupspencer.pupplay.ing

So everyone can use the custom handle format. Yay!

FAQs:

• Is my account safe? Yes, we don’t need your account login or password. This is just to set a custom handle. You can remove it anytime, and if the custom handle ever got disconnected you’d revert back to a normal BlueSky handle.
• What happens to my old handle? As the official BlueSky blog says: “if you change your default Bluesky username (with the .bsky.social suffix) to a custom domain, your old username will be available for someone else to use. However, any tags or mentions with your old handle will still point to your account.”
• For rules, guidelines, and technical info – see the bottom of this article.

Instruction Guide – How to get your custom username / handle

TL;DR: The setup process is fairly simple, and no technical knowledge is needed. You just need to go into your account settings, copy a code, submit it to our system via a form (when logged in to your BadPups account), and verify/apply your new username on BlueSky.

Zoom the page if you need the guide to be bigger. It is split into sections with buttons to take you quickly to where you need to go during the guide.

^Notice: The above button takes you back to the BlueSky app on mobile. On desktop (or if you don’t have the BlueSky app) it will open a new BlueSky site page. Go back to your previous BlueSky tab to resume your username changes.

All done? Return to your dashboard!

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Technical limits:

• Our DNS service limits us to around 1,000 accounts per custom handle. This will be updated or announced if other limitations also apply.
• Name length is limited to 255 characters, or less, depending on if there are any other system limitations.
• If this doesn’t mean much to you, then we’ll let you know if a handle you want isn’t available.

What’s allowed (guidelines and rules)

Pawsome Domains wants the LGBTQ+/furry/pup/pet/similar communities to benefit positively. So our requirements are:

What we want:

• Target audience is furries, LGBTQ+ folk, kinksters, and the pup play / pet play community. If you’re unsure, you can still create a handle. We’d like many people to enjoy this service.

What we don’t want:

• Handle names cannot be offensive/illegal, cannot contain non-English characters, use trademarked names, or imply or promote anything similar to the account use rules below:
• Any account using a custom handle provided by us must not post or promote any:
  • anti LGBTQ+, racist, sexist, or other majorly offensive content
  • anything illegal (obvious ones such as child pornography, rape, etc). The “what’s illegal in your or my country” situation is: what’s legal in our location (USA), and your country. If these two countries conflict on legality, ours will prevail as we supply the service.
  • self-harm or the harm of others (violence, suicide, terrorism, etc).
  • misleading, dangerous, malicious, spam/scam, phishing, etc content
  • and similar other rules as defined by the BlueSky platform for prohibited content and actions.
• Accounts that break these rules will either be warned or have their handle revoked. If this happens, BlueSky will let you pick another handle without breaking your account. However your account may be suspended or reviewed by BlueSky.

You can report a user who breaks these rules by contacting us on our contact page.