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nsite
NIP-5A, Nostr website, site manifest, named site
A static website on Nostr under NIP-5A, where a site manifest maps paths to files stored on Blossom servers.
nsite is a static website published on Nostr. Under NIP-5A, an author publishes a site manifest event that maps absolute paths such as /index.html or /blog/post/index.html to SHA-256 hashes of files stored on Blossom servers.
A gateway reads the manifest from relays, fetches the referenced files by hash, and serves the site from a URL derived from the author's pubkey. The spec supports a root site for one pubkey-wide site and named sites for smaller sites under the same pubkey, which is why mirrors often appear at domains like npub...nsite-host.com.
Because the manifest lives on Nostr and the files can be mirrored across Blossom servers, an nsite can stay reachable through multiple gateways instead of depending on one web host. The model is still static: the site ships files, not server-side code, and gateways simply resolve the manifest and serve the matching blobs.