Freeyourid.com Launches World's First Personalized OpenID Service.LONDON -- FreeyourID.com launches the first fully personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. , portable OpenID solution for the mass market, in partnership with Global Name Registry The Global Name Registry, Limited is the operator of the .name top-level domain for individuals' names as delegated by ICANN on August 1st 2001. The company focuses on digital identity and . , JanRain and Key Systems, signing up more than 4000 users after just four days of operation. A first on the Internet, FreeYourID.com is offering people worldwide their name as a personal and lifelong email address See Internet address. and OpenID, typically first@last.name and first.last.name. It combines the best of identity technologies, personalized email and web address, and incorporates a powerful digital identity using the rapidly expanding OpenID technology. All fully personalized, portable, lifelong and available free to try for 90 days, these personalized Internet addresses are being rapidly registered by individuals all over the world at a rate of over 1000 per day. OpenID is provided in partnership with JanRain, a Portland, Oregon based company building identity services, which was recently selected for the Business 2.0 "Next Net 25" list. FreeYourID.com is unique in the new and rapidly growing OpenID space enabling users to easily and quickly get not only an OpenID from a trusted provider, but an address that can follow them for life no matter which email provider, web provider or OpenID provider they choose. A .NAME address provides the ultimate freedom to change service providers, email, web and identity. FreeYourID.com offers much more than OpenID - above all it is about providing a memorable, personal and lifelong contact point for online communication - the essence of an online identity. "A .NAME is personal Internet property of the best kind. What can be more memorable and descriptive for your identity than your name, like first@last.name? A .NAME address is the perfect basis for OpenID digital identity and can stay with a person for life." says Hakon Haugnes Hakon Haugnes is one of the founders of the .name top-level domain and is currently the President of The Global Name Registry (GNR). Previously Mr Haugnes was a co-founder of Nameplanet.com. External links
About Global Name Registry Global Name Registry, headquartered in London, UK, is the global administrator of the .NAME Internet top level domain, the only Internet space reserved exclusively for individual identity. About JanRain JanRain is a Portland, Oregon based company building identity services based on the single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. technology called OpenID. JanRain has provided clear leadership in developing OpenID and was recently selected for the Business 2.0 "Next Net 25" list. About Key Systems Key-Systems GmbH is an ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). and one of the leading European registrars with currently more than 1,500,000 domains under management. |
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