From dee47c090777863fb5879e42255c2f856d3aa55d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chad Curtis <chad@chadwick.site>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 04:33:10 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: prevent bare dot from triggering NIP-05 redirect in
 search

---
 src/lib/nostrIdentifier.ts | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/nostrIdentifier.ts b/src/lib/nostrIdentifier.ts
index 0d5c186e..860d8595 100644
--- a/src/lib/nostrIdentifier.ts
+++ b/src/lib/nostrIdentifier.ts
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ function looksLikeNip05(value: string): boolean {
     const atIndex = cleaned.indexOf('@');
     return atIndex > 0 && atIndex < cleaned.length - 1 && cleaned.slice(atIndex + 1).includes('.');
   }
-  // bare domain — contains a dot but isn't a NIP-19 identifier
-  if (cleaned.includes('.') && !NIP19_PREFIXES.some((p) => cleaned.startsWith(p))) {
+  // bare domain — must look like "something.tld" with non-empty parts on both sides of the dot
+  const dotIndex = cleaned.indexOf('.');
+  if (
+    dotIndex > 0 &&
+    dotIndex < cleaned.length - 1 &&
+    !NIP19_PREFIXES.some((p) => cleaned.startsWith(p))
+  ) {
     return true;
   }
   return false;