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Shane's Domain Auction Picks for Friday July 8th

Shane's Domain Auction Picks for Friday July 8th

No Coldplay cheating talk

Shane Cultra
July 18, 2025

The talk right now from registrars is why do we need blockchain if our APIs work well? APIs and blockchain both move data, but they serve very different purposes. APIs are built for speed, flexibility, and real-time access. They let systems talk to each other quickly and are perfect for things like AI, where fast, structured data is everything. If you’re building tools that need to pull in data from multiple sources, respond instantly, or interact with users in real time, APIs are the better choice every time. They’re lightweight, efficient, and proven. Literally the entire Internet is built on APIs and will continue to.

Blockchain is slower by design, but it offers trust and permanence. It’s best when you need a verifiable record that no one can quietly change later. So asset ownership, transaction history, or decentralized identity. You’re not going to use blockchain to deliver weather updates or pull user data for an AI model—it’s too heavy and slow. But if you’re building something where trust, transparency, and immutability matter more than speed, blockchain is where you want to be. Use APIs to move data fast. Use blockchain to prove what happened. Each has its place, and using the wrong one can waste time and kill a product.

Where I and most domain investors get bogged down is in the assumption that 95 percent of people in the domain space don’t care about decentralized identity or immutability. They don’t. The trust is in the company or platform, not in shifting that trust to a trustless blockchain. I do think it’s smart to make public chain data accessible in domain finance tools, but the real question is whether users even want it or will use it.

It will be interesting to watch what actually gets built and where. Like I’ve said a hundred times, the first thing we need to do is fix what already exists. The UI, the user flow, the stats. Across most platforms they’re flat-out bad. Blockchain is not going to fix that. Where I think blockchain will matter is in lending. That’s the one area where transparency, ownership records, and decentralized enforcement can add real value. Nobody cares about fractionalization. Marketplaces don’t need blockchain either. Lending and domain finance are where it fits. Everything else should be handled by APIs, which also need to improve and be more accessible.

Quote of the Day:“In a connected world, APIs are the new currency.” — Forrester Research

Domain of the Day: Chatmatic.com Automatic Chat. AI all the way

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Shane's Domain Auction Picks for Friday July 8th

No Coldplay cheating talk

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