Spot on, so the dude charging ppl just for adding entries in the json file on his webserver? :-)
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Absolutely. Not everyone will pay $12 a year for a domain. Not everyone will host a server themselves at home or in the cloud somewhere. It's extremely simple, but people like simple. The average person likes simple and easy.
There seems to be a lot of tech support related as well š some wouldnāt bother with the hassle
The past 3 days I've done nothing but help people all day long update their nostr profile metadata to display their NIP-05 domain. These people would would fit your narrative. They wouldn't bother with the hassle if they had to do it all on their own. They just want an easy ID for recognition, searchability, and to have their ID be in a human readable format, not a pubkey key.
Seems like a good trade off to me, a few well known domains can offer to do the technical side. this at least proves that users had some sats in the game and are unique on that particular well known domain. People are still free to do their own domain/hosting.
People should also keep in mind this isnāt the final state of the ācheckmarkā the domains going to be verifiable in app at some point or at least thatās what I interpreted