ZeroSSL is back online and new Bluesky handles can be verified again. We have added a second fallback SSL certificate provider for use when ZeroSSL is offline.

The issue has been identified as an outage with our SSL certificate provider, ZeroSSL. When a new handle is created, our system issues an SSL certificate which is necessary for Bluesky to verify the handle. Due to the ZeroSSL outage, new certificates were unable to be created.

New handles are failing to verify: after creating a handle, a user will see a failed to verify error in Bluesky.