Potentially unpopular #Nostr opinion... If you use your own domain for nip05 you're not anon.

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Depends on how the domain was purchased and how the hosting is managed

Thats right.

Yes, potentially... But as we all know the thing that always gets folks caught is a slip up in opsec

As long as someone is an active nostr user using the same npub, I doubt that anyone can be really anonymous

Just buy a domain and a small VPS on njal.la or similar no-kyc services?

Not everyone on here is anon or cares to be.

That sounded sort of rude, sorry. What I meant, was that we specifically registered our domain under a real name, from a person people know from real-life meetups, and then gave everyone/everything (including bot npubs) on the team a NIP-05 from there. That means that I'm personally vouching from the holders of those NIP-05s being legit.

That's why I think NIP-05s have a use case for companies, project teams, churches, and similar organizations. It's a community identifier, basically. Sort of like, how people are asked to verify their account on Instagram, or something.

I guess that's similar to a badge, but more concrete and with higher accountability. We give people who come to the meetups badges.