dzcode on Nostr: Stop giving a checkmark to every NIP-05 user. It's helping spammers. NIP-05 doesn't ...

Stop giving a checkmark to every NIP-05 user. It's helping spammers.
NIP-05 doesn't equal verification.

quoting nevent1q…7gtk

Something interesting the latest spammer used, is this service. It’s basically a zero sign up NIP-05 service. It’s actually pretty cool.

What it does mean however is that having a NIP-05 and even being a validated NIP-05 means nothing regarding trust that can be given to a NIP-05 verification.

And just to clarify, not saying that applies to all NIP-05 domains, just that having any valid NIP-05 in of itself isn’t useful without further validation by other means.

In this case, the spammer created a kind0 metadata event and got a fully verified NIP-05 without any further effort - but their posts looked more authentic in client apps… which is something to ponder if this is app good UX.

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