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@ daniele
2025-06-05 05:23:47
For this very reason some time ago I updated NIP-05 to clarify that it's not a verification:
Identification, not verification
The NIP-05 is not intended to verify a user, but only to identify them, for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of a contact or their search.
Exceptions are people who own (e.g., a company) or are connected (e.g., a project) to a well-known domain, who can exploit NIP-05 as an attestation of their relationship with it, and thus to the organization behind it, thereby gaining an element of trust
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md#identification-not-verification
Unfortunately is impossible to identify these exceptions in a programmatic way, so I agree that checkmarks should be removed.