You can buy one from a site like https://nostrplebs.com or request one at https://nostrcheck.me
You can also self-host your own, and it’s not even that difficult to do!
https://orangepill.dev/nostr-guides/guide-to-verify-nostr-profile-nip05-identifier-with-your-domain/
This, except it’s not verification. It’s self-identification. Allows you to share who you are more easily in a human-readable way without a public key. A scammer / impersonator can also follow these steps.
Interesting. Still worth the sats I guess. Ty!
Semantics. You’re still verifying yourself on a domain that you either share or own. Anyone can create a fake badge and pretend to be someone else, but they can’t steal your exact identity, so anyone can always compare.
Fingerprints can’t be copied.
Yep.
The semantics are really important and worth explaining, though. For people coming from other social networks where they’re used to verification meaning their government issued identity was checked by a centralized trusted authority, they will initially think that NIP-05 is similar to that but it’s not — I’ve seen this misunderstanding happen many times here already. Anyone can compare, but what it is compared to is different here than with traditional social platforms, and whether the thing you’re comparing to can be trusted matters.
I turned on NIP-05 couple days ago. I can’t put my hand on exactly what it is.
I don’t feel more verified due to the @ behind my username.
To me, the real test of “verification” is who expends energy to interact with me.
An assessment of someone’s assessment of my reputation.
Really well said. Ty for this. Reputation is being defined real time.
That’s completely true. The badge doesn’t prove who you are, your own content and connections do that even more effectively.
Think of all those Twitter accounts that started to shred their history(woke journalists etc). No different than Arthur Anderson shredding all their documents during Enron days (I’m old). Didn’t go so well for them. You are who u are.
Honesty > deleting history.
I think a time limit should be imposed (probation period) on new accounts before they can purchase or add a NIP05
How would that even work? It would either have to be a protocol change, or individual clients would need to agree to implement this.
Just my thoughts on trying to figure out the spam accounts, build genuine connections.
Yep - Iris provides a free nip05 but it's not a verification in itself unless you start to stack up some other proofs.
I can't go past auth! We are blocked here and no vpn get me through
The verification comes from Cloudflare:
developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/concepts/cloudflare-challenges/#common-issues
This might render better as a link:
Self-hosted should always be the preferred option. A name@nostrplebs or nostrcheck has nothing to do with verification except for one of them attesting that you paid some cents for the identifier. With a self-hosted id with a valuable domain that only you feature, it's much more in terms of verification.
My Leo is provably the only name @nostr.info: https://nostr.info/.well-known/nostr.json
At least that's how I care about nip05 in terms of verification. *@nostrica ... yeah, I follow them. *@nostrplebs ... better triple-check I'm not falling for some ChatGPT fake account.
That’s why I am running my ID off a domain I manage.
