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Calling all Nostr NIP-05 service providers. Anyone interested in adding NIP-05 bulk queries so that you don’t get accidentally DoS’d? Damus currently queries NIP-05 providers N times to build NIP-05 web of trust feeds. It’d be great if I could query only once instead of 600+ times for popular domains like NostrPlebs or Primal.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1980

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ben 5mo ago 💬 1

i think just returning the raw nostr.json is the simplest solution

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Terry Yiu 5mo ago 💬 1

Yes, but there are legitimate reasons why a NIP-05 service provider might not want to do that:

- Doesn’t scale. Imagine if there were a million users

- Privacy reasons. An organization may not want to reveal the entire directory to protect its users.

Popular providers already don’t return the raw nostr.json.

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ben 5mo ago

I feel that. you could shard today by subdomain I guess.

but it makes sense to have a more structured access to this data, I agree. pagination and query would make sense and align with the REQ specs.