@eapl.me I wouldn't call it natural, it is the way Bluesky decided to handle handles (not meaning to make a pun, or anything). There is no other way, but that.
The bottomline is, there are agreed upon "standards", right? From example, on Yarnd you show as "eapl.me", from "eapl.me". A kind of weird redundancy because on twtxt, ever since I started using it, one will expect to see a "*nick*" (equivalent to a person's first name), from "*a domain*" (like a surname).
There is nothing holding back someone from giving themselves the nick:
thisismyawesomenickforwhichiwillbeknownforeverandeveritsgreatisntit
But, do we really want that? 😅