I think NIP-05 aliases are far from being a must have!
Some people with personal registered domains may find it useful to add a domain alias to their pubkey.
Or maybe in a Company it could be useful as a way to announce their official pubkey.
But I don't see any value on it for the normal user.
I even think assigning a checkmark in the UI to every user with a defined NIP-05 alias is misleading and helping the spammers and scammers.
Thank you!
Also at the moment it is quite easy to copy accounts, because you can give exactly the same names for your pubkey as another account, and noone is really checking the pubkey.
So this "verified" status can help even more to mislead people.
So fully agree with your point!
^ this
The only value it does have for normies is, as #[0] pointed out, it makes it easier to give someone your contact.
"Hey how can I add you on nostr?"
"My pubkey is npub..." vs "Just add me@domain.com"
Dunno... I'm not convinced of that.
- In real life, it seems easier to use QR scan to add a new contact.
- In virtual space, it looks similar to copy-paste a npub than a domain name, imo.
I admit that sometimes, the NIP-05 alias could be useful, for example:
#[4]
