In a previous post I wrote to Good Energy asking them to respond to the British Gas Zero Carbon tariff. Thank you to Owen Broadway of Good Energy for responding. His reply to my enquiry is below, and I've made some comments below that.

Tony,

Thanks very much for your …

Bob at work pointed out an article in the Ends Report that suggests British Gas's Zero Carbon electricity tariff is greener than my Good Energy tariff. I wrote the following to Good Energy:

I read in the August 2007 Ends Report that British Gas retires 12% of ROCs above its …

I was going through the Own-Id error log and found a bug that affects new users only. It occurred when the DNS propagated to the user's browser before it reached the Own-Id server. I've now changed the code so that no DNS lookup is ever done on the domain name …

Dear Tony,
I would like to see a clear explanation about security. Now I can only assume that the id works by me "claiming" the id before anyone else does so.
There also doesn't seem to be a procedure to reclaim an id if I get a problem with my …

In B&Q's GU10 white LED lightbulb I've finally found a low energy replacement for my halogen spotlights. The LED bulb is 1.2W, compared to the 50W of the halogen. The amount of light from the LED isn't as great as that from the halogen. It's also a much …

Yesterday I released a new version of Own-Id which fixed all the outstanding bugs. The main bug was not correctly picking up the OP Endpoint URL, which affected claimId.com ids. There were also some minor bugs, such as handling fully qualified domains properly. Thank you to the people who …

All right,
I later realized that it works as a proxy. Knowing that, there was no problem.

Thanks for your service!

Thanks. I had created a A (Host) entry instead of a CNAME entry. I have made the change. Thanks for your clarification.

Hello Jeff. I use GoDaddy.com as well, and the tool to use is called 'Total DNS'. That will let you add a new CNAME record.

Happy DNS pointing!

I also wanted to mention that for my domain provider I am unable to point my DNS to www.own-id.com.

Godaddy.com requires that I point to an IP Address. So I have pointed to: 82.211.77.143

Hopefully this is a static IP Address, if not then …