A OpenID promoter, JanRain has joined with global name registry to offer .name based openID. The intiative called freeyourid.com offers you .name based openID. You can register firstname.lastname.name as your openID. For example, I have registered krishnan.subramanian.name. They are now offering 90 days free trial. If you think this is convenient, you can then continue using this id for $10.95 per year (which is the usual cost for a .name domain but, here, you only get a subdomain here because another person with the same last name but different first name can still use your part of lastname.name). For more info, read this post by CEO of JanRain. I am not sure if I want to pay $11 for just a subdomain when I can buy a domain name for the same cost and activate openID with just a 2 line code in my website. If it is around five bucks a year, I might consider continuing after the trial period.
Update: Check out Dmitry’s post on this topic.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:16 am
No, I didn’t. Lemme check if there is something in the options that is stopping the pingback.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Didn’t you receive my pingback?
FreeYourID: Thank You for Not Registering
February 15th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
No, I didn’t. Lemme check if there is something in the options that is stopping the pingback.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I think you and Dmitry miss the point that most users don’t want to have to deal with doing their own delegation by hand, etc. This service gives users control if their identities (they own the domain, not us) and gives them a turn-key solution for managing it.
I imagine this is not a service that either you or Dmitry would use.
Krish: sorry we didn’t connect at Ignite, feel free to contact me at scott at my-last-name dot com.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Thanks Scott. I will send a mail your way with my questions.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Thanks Scott. I will send a mail your way with my questions.