Oddbean

Main issue was that fiatjaf and semisol were against it. So it had no real chance. For a project to be successful you need everything to go right. And with powerful people against you, it is likely to not a productive use of time. To bring it back you would need to write and put online the indexer. However the schema that is used to create the rules needs to be managed responsibility by someone who has the time. That's another challenge. What's good about #pubky is that its already a working system with millions of nodes. So hard for it to fail. There would need to be a tie-breaker system that ties names to pubkeys. There's emerged new ecosystems for that now, namely runes, or my soft-fork #glyphs. For me it just needs to be fair.

Ya that's what I noticed too. When I mentioned I'd see if I can bring it back to life is by implementing it, to be the first nostr client to implement seriously, hit up the creator to soft get back into it as a result and help a bit with financial burned as well as help with designs, and depending on the success of my client it would bring attention to Nomen in the scene (both positive and negative since it got shot down), then hopefully we'd see if it'd properly live or not. How I see Nomen is just that, a simple name indexer with an end user cost of cheap to expensive depending on traffic, and I wouldn't want control of who takes names and wouldn't want expirations on names either (if someone took google, and the actual company wants the name but aren't successful in buying it off the person, then their name would be google:1 or google:2, depending on when they got the name). Of course it'd also be used as a handle for nostr users. In regards to how people would check for names, well, a lot of people are already running Bitcoin full nodes, so a one time scan then keeping it running along with the node would be it. Sites/apps would link to such scanners to fetch names and that's it. One question I had in mind though, regarding pubky, is why another keypairs? Couldn't it be built on top of nostr and use it's keys?

One thing that will always be needed is pubkey.nostr as a domain. Because only one privkey controls, or can control, that record then getting a DNS doesnt matter too much where you get it from. Pubky are making proper eco system for this including 10 million Mainline nodes, so it truly is censorship resistant, rather than the small nostr public relay network. See also https://dnstr.org/ Main problem is that it's hard to get anything at all through nostr right now. So it's a dead end for most innovation. Attaching names to a pubkey is a two step process because more than one one pubky can claim a short name, you need a tie-breaker. But it's no good some small tie-breaker system that no one has heard of. For it to be fair it has to be well publicized and a level playing field, with some cost to getting names. Running a node and an indexer is one step (tho no one has done that right now) plus getting a good domain, then you have to publicize it, and then you need to ensure the rules are fair and stable. It becomes such a huge task, and with people against it, very little chance of success. As other solutions have emerged from other eco systems, it seems the path of least resistance to use them rather than to do it all yourself in an adversarial env.