Manage your online identity.

Our users have asked for this for a while - and we’re glad to finally see it out of development.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve got SSL enabled now at claimID.com. You should be able to login to your existing account at https://claimID.com. Those of you reading who don’t already have an account can register with the knowledge that there’s nobody in the middle watching your password. Additionally, the change_password page is encrypted as well.

We’ve chosen to only enable a few points of the site - where your password is used. The rest of the site (and your OpenID URLs, most importantly) have not changed. This is important because your OpenID is your login to other sites - and a change from http to https would effectively change who you are at those other sites. But fear not - you’re still you.

Thanks to everyone who asked for this. It’s been a long time coming.

A new post from Alavilli Praveen on the dev.aol.com site mentions the ongoing and recent upgrades to the AOL account management tools. They have integrated OpenID and have put the functional pieces in place for other AOL products and services to add OpenID via OpenAuth.

Additionally, this is news since they are only allowing OpenIDs from a select group of hosted services at this time. Of course, we’re happy to be right there near the top.

Original post - AOL & OpenID - Status Update:

Since the AOL Account Management site is something in our control, we went ahead and added OpenID support to it - even though user’s cannot really do anything in there apart from changing their profile information.

We currently support OpenIDs from the following OpenID providers:

1. myopenid.com
2. claimid.com
3. livejournal.com
4. verisignlabs.com
5. myvauthid.com
6. openid.sun.com
7. myvidoop.com

We are open to accept OpenIDs from other providers too - so please contact us via AOL Developer Site with your information.

If you’re ever looking for a places to use your OpenID, you might want to take a look at the OpenIDDirectory.  The directory lists over 300 OpenID-enabled websites that are voted and commented upon, which actually is a nice resource if you ask me.

If you’d like to check out ClaimID or give us a vote, you can find our OpenIDDirectory profile here.