it's an interesting use case, but i think it is more negative than positive. for example, it makes it easier for scammers to impersonate someone if you can have multiple nostr addresses. all someone would have to do is spin up a few domains and use a few identity providers and they could have many aliases. some may think the more the better or the more they have, they more legit and that's simply not the case.
to me it sounds like you want to display nostr badges as gamer tags. they were designed exactly for this reason. @Cameri🐦🔥 created them as a method to cosmetically display somemthing on a user's profile. i feel like you should go this route.
anyways, depending on the client, you've always been able to search for non-active nostr addresses. they wouldn't show as active or / valid though.
for example, im still derekross@nostrplebs.com and before that i was @derekross.me. you can search for those addresses on some clients.
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+1 for Badges, specially since this seems to be cosmetic in nature
They can do that now, anyway, and it hasn't prevented any spam at all.
But, for example, if someone has a nip-05 from The Forest and GitCitadel and Alexandria, I, personally, and very reasonably sure that this person is who they seem to be, since I am familiar with all those particular corners of the web.
If a bio displays a bunch of random nip-05s that I am not at all familiar with, it isn't hard to discover that they are junk domains being spun up.
I also think this is another avenue of discovery, which, I think, is going to be more important in the future as more and more relays are spun up for ever more niche communities.