FreeYourID: Personalized OpenID

I like having multiple identities. It guards me against the single-point-of- security failure. And if I want convenience, I can use Roboform to sort out all the logins.

-Stan

I would not suggest people to go with it. Its costly and somebody else will own the domain.
The best could be buy a domain with your name. example
http://www.myname.name its cheap. Put your profile on that page. Most of the domain providers give you atleast one page. or point the domain to some pages on google pages etc.

register for a open id on http://www.myopenid.com and use the delegate method so that you could use your url as open id (you would not be running any server by yourself. all you need is one page on some server). Also put your global profile on that page for world to know who are you?

Most of the domain service providers give you email forward service. Use that for it.

I wrote about it few days back http://www.techmag.biz/uses_openid_delegation

http://freeyourid.com/page.php?p=tcs

Here are their terms of Service

The problem is email spam, junk mail, and Telemarketing. I have friend who had tons of telemarket calls directly form india. They call him almost everyday. He sign up for “Don’t call list” government hotline. It didn’t work

U.S were unable to trace the calls and tracking cookies.

You mean “Microsoft PASSPORT”

I signed up, we’ll see how it goes. dunno if i want the world to see my myspace page. my only friends are playboy bunnies.

I don’t know if this service is so great. Take a look at this site http://www.techcrunchme.com

And to think that AOL would be the first to push OpenID….

OpenID, Yahoo Pipes, mashups… it all makes me wonder that maybe web3.0 is a shorter distance from us than we might think. OpenID as profiles, Yahoo Pipes-style apps as the platform, widgets. Just put’em together the way you fancy, invite your pals and there you go, your own mashup for you and your friends to work/play.

Like playing with LEGO blocks, you’ll be able to build your web2.0 app on the fly - just select the features (video, photos, maps,…), widgets, and anyone with an OpenID (meaning _everyone_ a couple of years from now) and off you go.

Who knows, maybe the so called WebOS (GoogleOS) is _this_ platform.

IMHO this is what social collaboration and convergence is all about.

(Yawn)

Next.

I prefer to have my own domain just like johndoe.com because its easier to remember

I don’t see why it’s so hard to get this moving forward if people really wanted it. Think of this as a DMOZ directory where companies/sites that implement it, get free P.R.. Of course, eBay’s of the world will always ignore such initiatives, so the entire industry would collapse within moments. .

However, I agree with Stanmiller

Seems a bit expensive to me. There will wind up being an open-source implementation of this, if there isn’t already, to provide this service for free. Having my own foo.name address isn’t that appealing.

I like to be unidentified

I signed up, verrrrrrry easy and cool signup. Misses that in services like this, they are always so hasslesome. While this was fast and easy. Easy DNS redirection change too. Hot stuff if you ask me!

It’s cute - but I’ve never wanted a .name address, and I still don’t

If someone will give me a single *properly* secure login mechanism for all my online banking, billing accounts, brokerages etc, then I’ll happily pay £30+ a year for that.

Until then …

(Livejournal does OpenID too.)

I see a clear demand for the simplification of managing login credentials. If you’re only accessing a few different services then sure, redundancy through different logins could provide some short term security benefits, but with the amount of new emerging service providers launching cool and useful applications almost daily there will be a point of diminishing return.

This is a good move IMO, the .name domain has a clear correlation to you as an individual, and combined with OpenID creates an effective combination to solve the complexity of accessing multiple different services. I’m part of a new startup in the Social Networking space, and we’ve been planning for some time to integrate OpenID support relatively soon out of the gate.

SIngle identity can be risky.I dont want too loose everythig if i loose this one.Moreover its not free.May be buiness ppl will like it but wil they?

Got my wings from Protopage, with one id I can alight on any PC from Bogotá to Brisbane, from Portugal to Peru! One start page lets me in from any stop over, suits me fine! http://www.protopage.com

Not sure about the saved logins in one place being that important right now. However, while most of us on this blog have a dozen or a hundred domains at godaddy, most of the world is pretty much out of it. Isn’t there still like 10 million aol users, and I still see netzero ads. So, there is a good market out there for newbies. We are not alone!

You can still be unidentified, just register some random openid at myopenid.net.

Wow. I thought TechCrunch didn’t promote stupid ideas…

FreeYourID: Thank You for Not Registering

This is pretty cool. I signed up, very easy.

Hrm… seems like maybe more solution than the problem demands - i.e.: as annoying as multiple accounts can be, how much of a problem are they in actuality?

For example, I have a different key for the front door of my house, the garage door, my car, my three bike locks, the stairwell at work, my desk at work, my gym locker, cottage, and my parent’s place. Its “annoying” to carry around a key chain, but far from annoying enough to push for some sort of OpenKeyChain hardware standard. I look at my online accounts the same way.

Stanmiller had a good point too. One point of failure makes me nervous…

http://slantt.net/news/techcru.....zed-openid

Instead of paying $11 a year for a name you’ll never own, you could get your very own FREE “Personalized Domain” via MobileOX.com - which not only links you to a single site, but to all of your favorite sites.

DavidEzra,

just to clarify, when you register a name on freeyourid.com, you own the .name domain/email just like you would a .com domain. You can also transfer it to any Registrar.

The difference with .name is that the Registry (we) share a lot of the names so many people can use them, like smith.name or jones.name, (and soon all the two-character names too), which are very common names and therefore interesting to share

To quote… “When you need to log in to a service or website, just type in your personal .name address, and the website connects to the OpenID servers, asking for authentication for you.”.

Presumably at that point, OpenID then asks you for your OpenID password otherwise I just type in some shlep’s OpenID, e.g. george.bush.name , and access all their secret world domination plans.

I’ll stick to using an encrypted USB key with RoboForm on it, and my own domain name from UKReg (with free web forwarding, email forwarding, etc).

Not everyone wants to do a bunch of work to manage their own OpenID. More importantly, they want control of their identity. Having your own domain means you can point it at whatever OpenID provider you choose. If you decide to transfer your domain to another registrar, you can do so and then follow the steps that Dmitry has show folks. If you just want it to “work”, then $10.95/yr is pretty reasonable and you still retain control.

I notice that the majority of people mentioning price as a concern actually already delegate their identities already; you’re not the target market for this product.

Robin: you’d need the shlep’s password to get access to their world domination plans. If you have their password I would agree, they are a shlep.

I’d suggest you read up on OpenID at http://openid.net for more information about how OpenID works. I think you’re confused about how it works. Better yet, feel free to sign-up for one and give it a try for yourself.

Not a bad price.

Oh yeah, I just got mine. http://kyle.korleski.name/

You can get a free OpenID identity at ClaimID. It seems like these kinds of things will be a dime a dozen in the near future.