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Proposal to change the format of NIP05 #1

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Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers

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On events of kind `0` (`user metadata`) one can specify the key `"nip05"` with an [internet identifier](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-3.4.1) (an email-like address) as the value. Although there is a link to a very liberal "internet identifier" specification above, NIP-05 assumes the `<local-part>` part will be restricted to the characters `a-z0-9-_.`, case-insensitive.
On events of kind `0` (`user metadata`) one can specify the key `"nip05"` with an @domain name as the value. So the identifier would read as: @[name].domainname. The advantage of this over the email address is as follows. Although there is a link to a very liberal "internet identifier" specification above, NIP-05 assumes the `<local-part>` part will be restricted to the characters `a-z0-9-_.`, case-insensitive.

Upon seeing that, the client splits the identifier into `<local-part>` and `<domain>` and use these values to make a GET request to `https://<domain>/.well-known/nostr.json?name=<local-part>`.

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