Claim your name on DRM3

Your DRM3 account now has a public name. It looks like @yourname, and it works the way a name works everywhere else: it is yours, it is unique across DRM3, and it travels every app you sign into, the same way your credits do. There is exactly one of each name, so the good ones go to whoever claims them first.

One name, every app

DRM3 is one account under many apps. Newsroom Floor, DomainDrift, TruthFoundry, and the rest all read the same identity. Until now that identity was your email, which is private and not something you hand to a reader. The handle is the public half: a name you can put on a paper, use in a byline, or give to someone who wants to find your work.

Every account already has one, and new accounts pick their handle at signup.

Get in early

More of DRM3 is coming that hangs off this name, so the accounts that claim a good handle now are the ones that hold it later. Signing up is free.

The name a badge attaches to

The handle is the groundwork for verified identity. As DRM3 begins to badge verified reporters and experts, the badge attaches to a handle, a payout attributes to a handle, and a domain you prove you own resolves to the same name. Build the name first, and everything that vouches for it has something to hold.

A name also protects the people who trust it. Change your handle and the old one is parked, not released, so nobody can pick up a name that used to carry your badge and speak as you.

Private by default

A handle is a public name, so people can see that it exists and find the work you publish under it. Everything else stays yours: your full profile page is off until you turn it on, your account details never show, and the list of names is not something an outsider can read off the site.