Getting Nostr NIP-05 Verified via Domain Host

NIP-05 Verification

NIP-05 is a verification method for your Nostr account across all clients (I use the Damus iOS client by Bill Casarin on iPhone and Mac). NIP-05 (NIP stands for Nostr Improvement Proposal) is like the blue checkmark on Twitter or Instagram.

I chose to verify my Nostr account through my website which is hosted on SiteGround.

This is the format to use in the nostr.json file:

{
  "names": {
    "<name>": "<pubkey>"
  }
}

In the Nostr account, the NIP-05 Verification field requires an email-like format: reid@reidwalley.com. So:

• <name> gets changed to the name you want. reid is what I used, since reid is the <local-part> of the internet identifier used for my NIP-05: <local-part>@<domain.com> (ie: reid@reidwalley.com).
• <pubkey> gets changed to your hexPubKey (NOT your nPubKey). My hexPubKey is: 54bab1309a8744312809d35ee9a9d54a4741edba181d9da1c0bfe4f6020f26ba
• To find my hexPubKey I visited https://www.nostr.directory/, typed my Twitter handle into the “Search by twitter name or public key on nostr” search field, and scrolled down the page to the hexPubKey.

{
  "names": {
    "reid": "54bab1309a8744312809d35ee9a9d54a4741edba181d9da1c0bfe4f6020f26ba"
  }
}

After saving the above as nostr.json, I FTP uploaded it to my pre-existing .well-known folder: https://<domain.com>/.well-known/nostr.json

CORS Permissions

NIP-05 verification might get messed up because of your domain host. SiteGround is my host and they have an article for allowing Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) via HTaccess.

Other ways to get NIP-05 verified

• NostrVerified
• NostrPlebs
• Nostr-Check (Edward Snowden uses this service for his NIP-05 verification)

Nostr NIP-05 Resources

• Verifying a public key
• NIP-05: Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
• How To Get Your Nostr Account NIP-05 Verified
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) on SiteGround

Find me on Nostr: npub12jatzvy6sazrz2qf6d0wn2w4ffr5rmd6rqwemgwqhlj0vqs0y6aqrs9mh9