So then the well known URI faces the exact same risk since that's under a domain name anyway.
I'm just saying to signal the hexkey via DNS TXT, not via a flat file confined to the domain component of a NIP-05.
You don't gain any advantages to doing it via well-known URI in censorship terms and you lose flexibility and usability in terms of deployment.
For some people it is easier to manage that by having a file on their website, for others it is easier to do that through DNS records, there are no obvious best choices here.
However, for a hosted service like nostrplebs.com or zbd.gg to have a username for each user, it is vastly easier to do it through the well-known URL.
It is also much easier and familiar for client developers to make HTTP calls than to do DNS calls.
That still makes Nostrplebs a third party that has control over your identity
What if you get your nostrplebs NIP-05 id tattooed on your face and then they go out of business?
You should never tattoo that. You should never treat your NIP-05 as your primary identity. It is just a temporary pointer.
I think that’s the main place where we disagree. Because if Nostr is going to succeed big, there will need to be a a human readable abstraction for npubs
My biggest issue is that I am now a nostr pleb, love calling myself that. I could figure out how to implement my own Nip 5 id via my domain wedgeorganics but i didn’t know how and for 12k sats I’m all set.
How do I make a permanent electronic identifier without hosting?
npubs are already the readable version of hex pubkeys.
Who buys personal domains? A handful of hipsters with iPhones. The majority of the world's population won't have a domain name anyway.
I would say you’re way off on that. Waaaay off.
