• nosotros: Namecoin .bit NIP-05 resolution (web)
  • Supported identifier shapes
  • What changes in nosotros
  • Why an inline resolver instead of waiting on nostr-tools
  • The cross-language family
  • Try it
  • Out of scope for this PR

§nosotros: Namecoin .bit NIP-05 resolution (web)

A PR opened against cesardeazevedo/nosotros — a fast Nostr web client built on React / TypeScript / nostr-tools / SQLite-WASM — adds Namecoin .bit NIP-05 verification directly in the browser via ElectrumX WebSocket. No backend, no proxy, fully static.

→ GitHub PR: https://github.com/cesardeazevedo/nosotros/pull/205

§Supported identifier shapes

• alice@example.bit
• _@example.bit / example.bit (root entry)
• d/example (Namecoin domain namespace)
• id/alice (Namecoin identity namespace)

§What changes in nosotros

§Why an inline resolver instead of waiting on nostr-tools

nbd-wtf/nostr-tools #533 exposes a nip05namecoin module with exactly this surface, but is still open. Rather than gate this PR on it landing, the resolver ships inline under src/services/namecoin/ — the same path hzrd149/nostrudel #352 and CodyTseng/jumble #774 took. If/when #533 ships, swapping the nosotros internals is a small mechanical replacement.

§The cross-language family

This brings the N1 reference-implementation count to eight, across five runtimes:

• Kotlin / Android — vitorpamplona/amethyst (PRs #1734, #2707, #2747, #2801, #2911, #2956, #2957)
• Swift / iOS — nostur-com/nostur-ios-public PR #60
• JS / TS — nbd-wtf/nostr-tools PR #533, hzrd149/nostrudel PR #352, CodyTseng/jumble PR #774, dergigi/ants PR #281, cesardeazevedo/nosotros PR #205 (new)
• Dart / Flutter — ethicnology/dart-nostr PR #44 (merged)

All eight interop on the same on-chain JSON shape documented in N1.

§Try it

• _@mstrofnone.bit resolves to npub1gvv9ahktvavf9qjtrgm62le7gplmmchd5usp5wpfhr85hf79kncqj8xchs
• testls.bit in the search bar resolves through ElectrumX and shows the profile with the teal shield

§Out of scope for this PR

• TLSA pinning of the resolver’s WSS dial (N3) — separate PR.
• Relay-URL resolution for wss://example.bit (N2) — separate PR.
• CLINK / payment-pointer composition on the same record (N5) — separate PR.

Discussion and review is in the GitHub PR. Replies on Nostr are welcome.

— mstrofnone