They are going to purchase a new domain for each bot?

Nip-5 providers would be incentivised not to let spamers use them less there whole domain gets muted.

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Clients should allow Users to filter/mute by NIP05. No NIP05 then I don’t want to see your replies.

Put the onus on NIP05 providers to not allow their service to be abused by spammers lest all their community get filtered out, then spammers only have the option of doing it from their own domains which can more easily be blocked and will quickly cost too much to be worthwhile.

What are the best tools atm to achieve this? Bot filters with captchas?

Using relays with paid gateways to become whitelisted.

https://relay.nostr.com.au for example ain’t relaying Reply Guys.

Cool concept! Does that really keep out bots or just make it more expansive to run bot nets at scale?

So, basically you pay to not get messages from bots and to be able to post on a bot free relay. Nicely aligned incentives.

Yes it keeps out the bots. They have to pay to have their npubs whitelisted and they ain’t doing that.

Spam only works when its marginal cost approaches zero.

would zapping the nip-05 provider for identification help?

Yes captas and non-free service would be tools for you. But you still may need to do some moderation as Nostr takes off more.

Makes sense. I will look into that. I can imagine some hard choices for moderators.