It is so that users of multiple services can be identified on each portal uniquely. Such as gamer tags or other name spaces they use in a nip-05 implementation. Sometimes the length of existing nip-05 is not suitable internally when using legacy software that is integrated and unique short names (before the @) are useful on the platform.
I have intentions of launching several portals and a few of them would thrive much better this way.
Also, it allows users to search for these verified aliases without it being the primary display on the profile. It is about enabling more use cases that are not easily enabled now.
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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.