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29
Sep 2009

Getting an OpenID with a custom domain

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OpenID is a recent standard that enables you to login to many different sites with a single account: your openID.  It seems to be catching on a bit, it has some support from big players like Microsoft and Google.

So far I think I've only used my openID to login to http://stackoverflow.com and to comment on some blogs.  I hope more sites start using it!

myOpenID is one of many places to get an openID, and they recently added a new feature letting you get an openID based on your own domain instead of theirs, so I have just given up my old openID which was http://alexblack.myopenid.com, and now I've got one from my own domain: http://openid.alexblack.ca/alex

Here's an article from ReadWriteWeb about how to setup an openID for your domain: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myopenid_for_your_domain.php

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