Is this the official verification service for bsky.app?
No. Bluesky does not have an official verification service. We are an independent service provider. We examine applications to see if the user meets our notability requirements and offer a bskyverified.social handle to qualified applicants. We are a service that researches applicants to determine if they are a person or organization of note and verify that they are who they say they are.
Why use a third-party verification service if I can verify with my own domain?
Anyone can register a domain for a few dollars and use it to set up their bluesky handle. If you choose to go this route, you’re asking your users to check out the domain and determine for themselves if it is legitimately you. While registering one domain might be cheap, scammers and catfish could just as easily register a domain name that looks just as legitimate as yours or even more so if you’re already on their radar. A bskyverified.social handle tells your followers that you are who you say you are. We have invested quite a bit into registering every possible variation of bskyverified.social that could be confused with the genuine article. We do not provide handles to anyone unless they have been manually verified by our team.
Will I lose my current followers, posts, or interactions?
Absolutely not! Your account will be exactly the same as before except that your handle will show bskyverified.social rather than bsky.social.
Who qualifies for verification?
Our service exclusively caters to notable individuals who create original content or are well known in their industry. We do not accept everyone. The decision to accept or reject an applicant is entirely based on the notability of their online presence. We do not discriminate based on the quality or nature of the applicant’s content except in cases of hate, harassment, promoting violence, or other harmful activities.
How do I qualify?
We only accept people of note. We look at all the social media profiles provided in your application and then research you to see if you qualify. Our specific requirements are tailored to the field of the person applying. A model might not have much presence on YouTube but could have a large Instagram following, while a famous scientist might not have a large social media presence but does have a detailed bio on Wikipedia and publications in respected journals. We do not have targets for specific numbers of followers as we are measuring engagement rather than how many bot accounts a person might have purchased. The links provided in the application are just a starting point. We do a deep dive to determine if an applicant is notable beyond what is initially provided to us.
How to contact us
Please use the Contact Form
What is involved in verification?
Our team carefully examines an applicant’s online presence and approvals or rejections are decided by a committee. We go beyond the links provided to try and get a full picture of how notable their online presence is. If you are approved, you will be notified with an invitation to schedule a Zoom call to complete the verification process with one of our agents. We try to keep these calls as brief as possible and they can be completed in as little as five minutes.
Is the service free?
There is no charge to apply. Qualified applicants will need to pay a one-time fee before they can receive their bskyverified.social handle. You are not required to pay prior to your verification call. There are no recurring payments or subscription fees. Your handle is yours to keep forever.