fyi.opensocial.checkAddress

Whether an address under this host's domain is free for a new group: no account's handle here, nor kept by a group as its address after it took a handle of its own. Anyone may ask, as anyone may resolve a handle.

Details · query
Kindquery
Authorityopensocial.fyi
Indexed

Query

query · GET

Parameters

query string

address

requiredstring

One label under this host's domain, as describeServer names it: riders.groups.test.

  • maxLength: 253

Output

application/json

address

requiredstring

The address, lowercased.

  • maxLength: 253

available

requiredboolean

Whether a new group may take it.

Similar lexicons

semantic match

Lexicons whose schemas describe something close to this one. Check them before publishing a new one that overlaps.

  • Whether a domain is ready to be the group's handle: what its _atproto DNS record, or its /.well-known/atproto-did, names now. Changes nothing. Requires group.configure.

  • Whether a lowercase Community name is free. Names are globally unique at the AppView, and a record whose name is taken is rejected at projection time rather than at write time, so clients check before writing.