Use a nip-05 identification using your own well-known domain!
Discussion
I’m rather techie and wasn’t able to do it. How will non technical people manage?
Well, it is not so complicated. A good tutorial should do it. You only need to create this json-file and then upload it to your server.
For non-technical people there could be helper apps. The needed json-file could be create by an app so you only need to check it and upload it to your server. Maybe I should program it, can't be that complicated...
In the meantime: Let me help you, shall I create a json file for you? You then just need to upload it to your webserver.
Now that I am thinking about it, yes there are caveats. In some cases you need to configure your webserver accordingly and need to know which webserver you are running on your domain, usually apache, sometimes nginx, seldom something else.
What about adding a NIP-5 file generator feature in the Damus Profile settings?
Could simultaneously help to illustrate the purpose of NIP-5, using a server as a credential, and make it more user friendly.
This should be a webapp, putting it into an iOS app does not make any sense. I would not expect that most people, that run a domain, use iOS to uploadfiles. 😉
You know the technicalities, from a user perspective I just argue I would like to generate critical data from within the client I already have established a certain trust with. Just my 2 sats.
My problem was the .htaccess entry. I did what the tutorial said, but it didn’t work.
Non-techies don’t even get so far.