Replying to Avatar Mike Dilger ☑️

user@domain is specifying a user at a domain, it is not specifying any protocol. The fact that people see it and think it is an email address is unfortunate, because this format of specifying a user at a domain was not originally intended to be used exclusively by email.

An email address URI is "mailto:user@domain"

We could use a URI something like "nostr:nip05:user@domain". I don't like the verbosity though.

But I don't like @user@domain. There is no way to tell that this is a nostr thing at all. Could be a mastodon address. Could be a bluesky address. Might be an email address with a typo.
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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

To add to that, using "nostr:nip05:user@domain" doesn't require any context. It says what it is.

Using "user@domain" requires context. You have to know external to the data that this is a nip05 address. In which case you already know that it is not an email address.

A user only confuses it with an email address if the context isn't obvious. And if the context isn't obvious, then the data should specify the context.

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