In the context of owning a domain, having my legalese registered in the public is precisely what I want. It doesn't even need to add any value over records stor

In the context of owning a domain, having my legalese registered in the public is precisely what I want. It doesn't even need to add any value over records stored in someone's desk to be a viable option, as long as it can compete on price. Unrelated, but actual paper is not cheap. Storing it, finding, modifying, and synchronizing between parties interested in the data involves people actually going places and moving stacks around. Even if you think about single-owner databases of records, those fail at preserving the proof of ownership. The ownership of the record is clear - it's in the hands of whoever has it. The record itself - the actual proof of ownership - is forgeable unless backed by cryptographic signatures, and easily eraseable unless made public. And to solve both, we gravitate back to blockchain-like tech.