Nostr allows users to register an identifier for their Nostr profile. This digital identiy allows their account to easily be displayed, searched for, and provides a human readable format for their public key. You can read more about the spec here: NIP-05.
Hosting your own NIP-05 ID is fairly easy as long as you have purchased a domain name and have access to a webserver to host a small JSON file. While this is fairly easy and simple for technically inclined people, for the average person, it's not worth the hassle or headache. They just want an ID. They just want to be easily searchable. They just want to have their ID represent their PUBKEY in a human readable format.
Reminder: This is not verification. There is zero verification done here. This is just an ID. NIP-05 ID's are great in their design, but people have been trained over the last decade that a checkmark means verified. Where in the Nostr sense, that's not the case. NIP-05 ID's are just an ID and anyone and everyone can and should have an ID.
What started out as hosting a few ID's for friends has turned into a full fledged Nostr NIP-05 ID hosting service. Nostr ID hosting providers / domains will eventually be reputation based. Whether that be on your own private domain or through an identity provider. NostrPlebs.com hopes to be one of those ID providers for Nostr.
For just 10K sats, you can get started with your own NIP-05 ID with a @nostrplebs.com address. If you're not a fan of Twitter Blue, we have your covered! We have Nostr Purple! Twitter Blue would run you $8 a month, but Nostr Purple and a @nostrpurple.com address will run you about $21 (125K sats at current conversion prices) for life.
We have a fully automated NIP-05 ID registration system with Lightning payments and public key management system if you happen to change accounts/keys. We offer users support through our online chat service and will soon be launching a browseable directory of all users in the near future. We're just getting started. We hope to offer additional features in the future for our customers.
If you have any questions or feedback about NostrPlebs.com, let me know.