Comments on: Free Your ID http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id Thoughts on Identity, OpenID, WordPress, and Life Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:59:40 -0800 hourly 1 By: Identity and Identifiers — Will Norris http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-39429 Identity and Identifiers — Will Norris Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:23:18 +0000 http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-39429 <p>[...] identity online, and how OpenID delegation fit into that picture. Seeing the potential for this, I grabbed will.norris.name on the very first day. It wasn’t long before I started using this new URL as [...]</p> […] identity online, and how OpenID delegation fit into that picture. Seeing the potential for this, I grabbed will.norris.name on the very first day. It wasn’t long before I started using this new URL as […]

]]> By: Daniel Aleksandersen http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-15979 Daniel Aleksandersen Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:41:31 +0000 http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-15979 <p>I do not like not beeing able to control the second level domain. When I register a domain I do not want a third level domain! In my mind those are just subdomains. Which you can get for free from any provider. Neverless I do find this service very interessting.</p> <p>Though it raisses an issue with spam email filters. Most filters will let trough emails that address you by your full name. Given that this service uses your name as an URI/ID it does provide a very easy way for people to sneak trough todays spam filters.</p> <p>Well, I guess not everything can be perfect. Maybe the email filters must learn to deal with being addressed with full names from spamers?</p> I do not like not beeing able to control the second level domain. When I register a domain I do not want a third level domain! In my mind those are just subdomains. Which you can get for free from any provider. Neverless I do find this service very interessting.

Though it raisses an issue with spam email filters. Most filters will let trough emails that address you by your full name. Given that this service uses your name as an URI/ID it does provide a very easy way for people to sneak trough todays spam filters.

Well, I guess not everything can be perfect. Maybe the email filters must learn to deal with being addressed with full names from spamers?

]]> By: Dmitry Shechtman http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-1272 Dmitry Shechtman Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:29:14 +0000 http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-1272 <p><a href="http://blog.phpbb.cc/2007/02/14/thank-you-for-not-registering/">Thank you for not registering</a></p> Thank you for not registering

]]> By: claimID weblog - Manage your online identity. » Archive » Free your ID - Free .name’s http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-1224 claimID weblog - Manage your online identity. » Archive » Free your ID - Free .name’s Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:24:59 +0000 http://willnorris.com/2007/02/free-your-id#comment-1224 <p>[...] Kveton and Will Norris have written some good reviews of the site, and I love Scott’s thread as you can see [...]</p> […] Kveton and Will Norris have written some good reviews of the site, and I love Scott’s thread as you can see […]

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