There’s no way to utilize nip5 for any sort of verification. For it to be useful, you have to know people’s nostr address. Scammers can register a free one and still look legit to someone who has no idea what that person’s actual nostr address is.
I think Nostur has the best solution in place with impersonator tag
Karnage
npub1r0…sq9ac
2024-09-20 10:13:05
in reply to nevent1q…clx0
Author Public Key
npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9acPublished at
2024-09-20 10:13:05Event JSON
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