I don't fully agree. A nip-05 identity is like an email address. It allows people to look up your npub based on a username@domain.nl identifier. That's its primary purpose.
I don't think nostrplebs is doing any sort of verification? I can't find any evidence for them doing that. Perhaps hodlonaut (npub1cjw…j2rh) was referring to the initial signup where people could contact Derek on Twitter to be able to register an early account? But it seems that at least today anyone can register any username on nostrplebs.com.
Not saying that hodlonaut isn't truly hodlonaut, it's just that in my opinion being nostrplebs "verified" doesn't prove that he is 🙂. The best proof of identity would be the person giving their npub on a site (such as Twitter, although in this case hodlonaut hid/removed his account there) where you know it's them.
oisyn
npub1a3…v00tf
2023-02-16 11:44:30
in reply to nevent1q…0wny
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2023-02-16 11:44:30Event JSON
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