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i-names come to claimID

September 16th, 2006 - Terrell Russell

A new feature for those of you perhaps more heavily involved in the identity space…

We’ve just rolled out i-names support here at claimID. If you already have an i-name, you can now add it to your account in addition to your other OpenIDs. If you don’t have one, here is a list of registrars.

More i-names information is available at inames.net and iwantmynamenow.com.

Thanks again to JanRain for the libraries that “just work”.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 4:23 pm and is filed under Dispatches from a beta, New Features, OpenID, claimID.

9 Responses to “i-names come to claimID”

  1. Will Norris Says:
    September 18th, 2006 at 4:37 am

    Hmm… I’m a little unsure how to go about adding my i-name. Would I enter the i-name itself in the openID box? the XRI.net link? does my i-name broker have to have openID support? If so, do you know specifically which ones do?

  2. Terrell Russell Says:
    September 18th, 2006 at 5:29 am

    Will,

    Yes, the box currently labeled OpenID is where you would simply put your i-name (I’ll get that changed to be a little more clear). The libraries now handle both OpenIDs as well as i-names and should parse and behave as expected.

    I’m not completely sure on the list of ’supported’ brokers - but since all these different schemes should work together seamlessly, I’d guess they are all supported at this point. If they do not today, they will in short order as these technologies continue to merge and mature.

  3. Terrell Russell Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 12:13 pm

    And I’ve just seen this this morning…

    http://linksafe.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/get-a-free-i-name-from-linksafe/

  4. zheng Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 9:10 am

    this feature had be published?

    i could not using my i-name logging in the ClaimID…

  5. Terrell Russell Says:
    September 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    I’ve just updated the libraries again - we had one small issue with i-names.

  6. Bob Billy Says:
    September 23rd, 2006 at 6:14 am

    I can’t get this feature to work with my @planetwork*_user_ i-name.

  7. MB Says:
    October 8th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    registration with my i-name hosted at linksafe is failing

    1) I put my iname =michel.benard in the “Your openid” textbox on your homepage http://claimid.com/
    2) I’m redirected to linksafe where I trust the claimid website , and fillin the form, then submit
    3) Back to claimid , I get an “verification of =michel.benard failed

  8. Terrell Russell Says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 1:11 am

    MB (and Bob Billy),

    This issue has come up before, but seems to be transitory. Our tests pass and things are working as expected at the moment.

    Thanks for the heads up.

  9. MB Says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 5:45 am

    it’s working this morning, thanks :-)

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