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 …

Thanks for this service.

I originally heard an excerpt of a dramatization of a Zola book on Radio 4, and that piqued my interest. I got Pot-Bouille from the library and found the book interesting and enjoyable (with a grim bit at the end) while delivering a strong moral message.

I think the purpose …

In response to Hugo Hallman's comment I've changed the instructions to make it a bit easier to set up a domain name. Thanks to Hugo for his feedback.

I've also changed the XRDS document so that Own-Id now supports all versions of OpenId.

Btw, we now have 13 users (domains …