This reminds me of web service/UDDI registries, that were supposed to come, and all the WS buzz in early 2000s. Some of them came indeed only to be shut down in a few years.
So what's different this time? gRPC, protobuf and GraphQL are out there vs. SOAP or CORBA? Some new thing about to rev up? Just plain old loss aversion?
Lambda? We need a FrontPage or Macromedia ColdFusion for that...
I guess that's it, somebody else from the Roblox generation can pick that up.
There's a chance for someone to earn $x per ID card or verifiable credential issued; you're essentially becoming a TLD operator only with something 95% of the population of developed countries will use.