when can we own not only our npub, but our handle that presents our npub to the human eye? nostr:note1xzg2y6jf8pp9w6te6vunt4gytmqw39hg9ujh7snz04d9vwxvelgsmmm2yg
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You mean own the domain that nip 05 is registered under?
i don’t personally like the nip-05 solution.
do you think people remember if your current nip-05 (without looking) is radii@ primal.net, radii@ nostrplebs.com or something else.
and even the fact that how should i know by the first look (without opening your profile) that it is owned by you or it isn’t?
Only via centralized services.
The best compromise is NIP05 identities tied to a domain well known that you control. Hence the reason that I tie mine to nodeyez.com and not nostrplebs.com
In this context, nostrplebs.com is obviously way more centralized than nodeyez.com, and since I don't have any control over nostrplebs, I put less trust in the accounts that NIP05 with it.
aren’t those servers that you’d host your own site on, still centralised?
You can host a web server from your house. The real issue is that DNS itself is centralized.
How about we create an OP_RETURN that associates a username to a nostr pubkey and its carved in the block chain in perpetuity. Order of blocks and txid denotes first in the case of multiple for same name. We'll define it as a layer 2 and formulate both a BIP and NIP around it, and it'll spend months behind the gatekeepers of BIP approval as "not in the spirit of bitcoin" and there will be a mad rush to fill blocks with op_returns registering to generated pubkeys for sale. /sarcasm
Or we just do what were doing now. Treat names as temporary and short time preference, and build reputations instead