Since steem provides support for arbitrary data to be attached to every account, it should be trivial for a savvy developer to port tools used by namecoin and similar projects to Steem.
Once these tools are in place, your steem account name could be used as a domain name for your own website.
I am sure whoever is the first to produce a quality set of tools to perform DNS lookups using Steem account metadata will get a flood of upvotes.
Just throwing an idea out there for those looking for money making posts!
Benefits
- Decentralized TLS (HTTPS) certificate validation, backed by blockchain consensus.
- Protect free-speech rights online by making the web more resistant to censorship.
- Access websites using the .steem top-level domain.
- Attach identity information such as GPG and OTR keys and email, Bitcoin, and Bitmessage addresses to an identity of your choice.