Showing extra trust with Nominet Member badges - thoughts and ideas are most appreciated

[Helmuts]

We are considering adding Nominet Member Badges to Acorn Domains profiles to enhance trust and authenticity within our community. This feature would help identify Acorn Domains accounts linked to verified Nominet members, ensuring additional credibility.

The idea is to implement a verification workflow consisting of two main components:

• Backend: A script or API handler to automate the domain validation process.
• Frontend: A section in user profiles to display the Nominet member badge once verification is complete.

Potential Workflow:

1. Parse the Acorn Domains user's email address (e.g., [email protected]).
2. Cross-check the parsed domain against Nominet's registrar database to determine if it belongs to a Nominet member.
3. Once a match is confirmed, flag the user's account in our system and display the Nominet Member Badge on their profile.
4. Regularly update the badge status to ensure it reflects the most current data.

Your ideas? Suggestions?

• What are your thoughts on this feature?
• Do you have any ideas or suggestions to make the implementation more effective?
• Are there any potential challenges we should consider?

@Steve Wright - could you please help us in connecting with the right technical person or department at Nominet? Specifically, we’re looking to explore whether Nominet offers an API for real-time email domain verification and cross-checking against the registrar database. Your expertise and guidance here would be greatly appreciated!

Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts and feedback. Let’s build this feature together!