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nip05 badges are probably a mistake. One of the most common questions I get is “how do I get verified” and “please verify me”. Very rarely will nip05 badges mean anything close to verification. Maybe for rare cases like mine where my domain is the same as my username, but most of the time it just means “some random domain points to my pubkey”.

Thinking I should remove the badge altogether.
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s3x_jay 2y ago

You actually have the power to make NIP-05 mean something… Just start treating the relays that are listed in NIP-05 as mandatory. That would serve a variety of purposes…

1) The user can make sure the relays they pay for never accidentally get dropped from use if they get them listed in the NIP-05 relay list.

2) Organizations/companies that use NIP-05 to validate that the person is part of their organization can mandate their relays be used so they can monitor what's said using their official accounts. (If you don't like that - don't get verified with them - or temporarily switch or disable your NIP-05).

When you think about it the NIP-05 relays can't be changed by the user (unless the user controls the domain). So it was written to give the domain owner, not the user, control over that particular relay list (whether it was intentional or not). That's actually it's advantage over NIP-65.

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