The use case that opened my mind is blockchain domain registrars. You can buy a domain and own it forever without a monthly payment. Everyone knows it is owned by a wallet and you can update the blockchain with your DNS info.
As far as I can tell it might be a little while before some of the TLD are supported by major browsers without an extension but I do believe support is inevitable.
Domains are a great blockchain product in my opinion.
Another aspect is products that can be tokenized without a company controlling things. The smart contracts are really cool in that you can make it so that you get paid a percentage of future sales. Forget about digital photos but think of it from owning a musicians album (royal does this).
These are things that can be done without the blockchain but you end up paying companies to manage it for you. They also set rules and they can also cancel you. Free from management fees and no company dictatorship.
Agreed about the domains. To add to this, for me the main problem aren't even the domain registrars, but rather the certificate authorities. It is madness that any certificate authority can issue certificates for any domain!
With blockchain domains, you can put the public part of your certificate on the blockchain and no one has to trust any third party to issue certificates - the domain owners issue their own certificates and they're guaranteed by the blockchain. A whole useless industry would become obsolete!
(Eg https://handshake.org/ attempts to do this. Disclaimer: I'm not a totally disinterested party :)
As far as I can tell it might be a little while before some of the TLD are supported by major browsers without an extension but I do believe support is inevitable.
Domains are a great blockchain product in my opinion.
Another aspect is products that can be tokenized without a company controlling things. The smart contracts are really cool in that you can make it so that you get paid a percentage of future sales. Forget about digital photos but think of it from owning a musicians album (royal does this).
These are things that can be done without the blockchain but you end up paying companies to manage it for you. They also set rules and they can also cancel you. Free from management fees and no company dictatorship.