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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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Derek Ross 2y ago

It's not verification. It's an online identifier. Read the spec 😁 Damus and every client that calls it verified or mentions verification is wrong. Your Nostr address is akin to an email address. That's it.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

You should keep it NIP, change the field to Nostr address, and remove the word verify throughout the client 🤙🏻

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The Daniel 🖖 2y ago

I’m on board with that. We are making things too technical by talking in NIPs. Users aren’t scouring GitHub to figure out what’s going on. They just want stuff that works without reading all the documentation.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

Exactly!

I've been asking clients to adopt this for a while now. Two clients call NIP-05 a Nostr address now. Snort and Current.

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Me searching nostrplebs.com looking for the word verify. Wtf is wrong with me…

So it’s really there to share our npub without scaring people with the format, and improving searchability? maybe I am not that stupid after all.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

Yes. That's why I've been calling it a human readable format for your public key for 5 months now. We don't call it verification because the spec never once mentions it. I only mention a verified checkmark because clients mention that and because of that, people search for it. 😉